Land use and Land tenure in Africa-Gear M. Jakoba

Land Use:  

• refers to the usage under which any given piece of land may be put for a given period of time under prevailing environmental and technological conditions, has undergone an evolutionary transformation, from the simple hunting and gathering to the more complex sedentary or permanent and commercial cultivations systems.

LAND TENURE 

• Has also gradually evolved from the simple to the complex, from the communal types of those where there is more tight control over allocation of land, suggesting more individual control of land. 

Land tenure systems in Africa: (White 1959)

1. Societies in which an individual obtains land rights by residence, without allocation through a hierarchy of estates.
2. Land holding under the control of lineages. 
3. Societies in which Chiefs exercised direct control over allocation of land with a descending hierarchy of estates. 
4. Feudal systems with landlords and tenants, 
5. Individualised land tenure under commercial production. 

In policy implication we have to many point to say that we could take  as  conclusions: there is need to work towards an interface, this should involve incorporating into market production.

Such an approach could help broaden the food base and cushion against the impacts of periodic droughts.  

Incorporation of traditional/indigenous agronomic systems into market production, the empowerment of small-scale farmers to a sustainable agriculture.