7.6: Land & Housing
The long-term goal is to ensure tenure security and equitable access to land for the attainment of broad-based social and
economic development through optimum and ecologically balanced use of land and land- based resources.
Other Information:
Land is a basic factor of production as well as an important source of livelihood for most Malawians. There are three legally
recognised types of land tenure in Malawi: customary, private and public. Customary land tenure is the most widespread category.
However, other sub-tenures that are commonly practised by customary landholders (renting and borrowing) are not legally recognised.
Registered private land (freehold and leasehold) accounts for less than 8.0 percent of the land area. Inadequate access to
land has been identified as one of the critical factors contributing to poverty in the country. The land sector impacts on
poverty in three main ways: inequitable access to productive resources and processes, unequal land distribution, and land
tenure insecurity. However, discrimination in access to land based on social status, economic status and gender is a major
constraint. For example, it is easier for rich people to access land than the poor, or where influential members of clans
make unilateral decisions on land, very often without prior knowledge of other members of the groups. In addition, the following
constraints or challenges have to be addressed; rapid population growth; poor land use practices, lack of effective representation
of vulnerable groups in land administration and use matters, lack of awareness about the landpolicyanditsimplicationsonpeople'slivelihoods,poorformallandmarkets,
and poor coordination among the existing network of field staff, NGOs, faith organizations, community based organizations
etc on land matters... Expected Medium term Outcomes: The medium term expected outcome is the efficient use of land and land
based resources and equitable access to land by all productive Malawians and other investors.
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