Transcript Land tenure and land use in agricultural censuses

PROGRAMME FOR THE 2010
ROUND OF CENSUS OF
AGRICULTURE
LAND TENURE AND LAND
USE IN AGRICULTURAL
CENSUS
Laupua.Fiti
March 2009
Land Tenure, what is it?
Refers to the arrangements in which a
holder operates land on a holding
A relationship of a person/group of
persons or institution with land
LAND TENURE TYPES
(1) Legal ownership or legal ownerlike possession
Land rights that provides statutory
security of tenure
Holder’s household possesses title or
ownership
Heredity
Tribal or traditiional
LAND TENURE TYPES
(2) Non legal or non legal owner-like
possession
Land operated with out interruption for long
period without any form of legal ownership,
title, long term lease or payment of rent
Land rented free, but can not be sold or
mortgage.
State land operated without any legal right
Land operated under traditional form or
tenure not recogonised by the state
LAND TENURE TYPES
(3) Land rented from someone else
For an agreed sum of money and/or
produce
Share of the produce
Exchange for service.
LAND USE TYPES
Refers to the activities carried out on
the land making up the holding with
the intention of obtaining products
and/or benefits.
Seven recommended land use types
LAND USE TYPES
(1) land under temporary crops
Land used for growing crops with less
than one year growing cycle
(2) land under meadows and pastures
Land temporary cultivated with
herbaceous forage crops for mowing
and pasture.
LAND USE TYPES
(3) Land temporarily under ble land
fallow
Arable land at prolong rest before re
cultivated. This may be part of the
holding’s crop rotation system, flood
damage, lack of water, unavailability of
inputs ect.
Land is not considered fallow unless it
been or expected to be kept at least for
one year.
LAND USE TYPES
(4) Land under permanent crops
Land cultivated with long term crops
which do not have to be replanted for
several years.
LAND USE TYPES
(5) land under permanent meadows
and pastures
Land used permanently (5 years or
more) to grow herbaceous forage crops
through cultivation or naturally.
LAND USE TYPES
(6) Forest and wooded land of trees
Forest – natural and plantation forest; crown
cover of more the 10% of tree able to reach
mature height of 5 meters; temporary land not
under trees but expected to revert to forest
Wooded land – crown cover of 5-10% for trees
able to reach a height of 5 meters or more at
maturity; crown cover of more than 10% not
able to reach a eight of 5 meters at maturity;
shrub or bush cover of more than 10%,
LAND USE TYPES
(7) other land- all other land of the
holding not elsewhere classified.
Eg land under water, wasteland,
building, roads, parks.