Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2011

The Forgotten Villages - Land Reform in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

October 2011

Danish Institute for International Studies

Abstract

Tanzania's 1999 land reform has decentralised land administration to the rural local village governments, but implementation so far has been slow and uneven. The local authorities rarely get the support they need to make it work. As a consequence, the benefits promised by the reform - economic growth and improved tenure security - do not happen.