Скачать или смотреть Tackling Land Fragmentation in Ethiopia

Endeshaw Habte on Land Governance Reform and Consolidation Strategies

At the 2025 SNRD Africa Conference in Zambia, the advisor in GIZ's Land Governance Project in Ethiopia, discusses a solution to one of the country’s biggest agricultural challenges: land fragmentation.

From digital land registration to voluntary and majority-based land consolidation, Endeshaw explains how the project is working to:
• Reduce productivity losses from scattered farmland
• Minimize conflict over borders
• Prepare the ground for mechanization and better infrastructure access
• Build legal frameworks and institutional capacity for lasting reform

🎥 This conversation offers an inside look at the strategic, legal, and community steps needed to make land governance work in practice — with lessons relevant far beyond Ethiopia.

#LandGovernance #Ethiopia #Agriculture #RuralDevelopment #LandConsolidation #Africa #developmentcooperation

00:00 Introduction & challenge of land fragmentation
01:23 Land consolidation as a management tool
02:14 Demographic pressure, inheritance & shrinking plots
03:03 Policy frameworks and legal reforms
04:18 Scale of the problem – farmers and landholdings
05:47 Economic losses, conflicts & need for registration
07:16 Community consent and approaches to land consolidation
09:01 Achievements, schemes & re-allotment of land
10:38 Obstacles: politics, law & institutional capacity
12:07 Pilot areas, transparency & communication needs
13:16 Final advice – sectoral coherence and joint platforms