Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abt. 45 / Div. 45

 

National Land Agency BPN - Republic of Indonesia (1995):
International Workshop on the Implementation of Rural Land Consolidation

2.3.4 Performance

Indicators of performance can be taken from any of the above categories. One can use measures of pressure, state or response as indicators of performance. They key element is the determination of a target. When targets have been set by institutions, organisations or private groups then it should be possible to develop and use indicators to access the development towards or away from the target on a periodic and timely basis.

Some examples of the pressure-State-Response framework for land policy orientation

ISSUE

INDICATOR

VERIFICATION
(Quantitative and Qualitative)

PERFORMANCE

Land Pressure

(social and ecological)

  • evolution of urban fringe
  • migration rural/urban
  • evolution of land distribution
  • coastal zone degradation
  • areas affected by natural hazards
  Present situation compared with spatial plans and land use plans
Land Sate
  • land tenure systems
  • land distribution
  • types of land ownership
  • land use and land capability dynamic of land markets
  elaboration of land registration, land use mapping and monitoring
Response
  • land consolidation programme
  • land use planning activities
  • enforcement of policies, laws and regulations
  • decentralization an deconcentration
  • regulation with fiscal measures
  • incentives
  • peoples participation
  • regularisation programme
  evolution compared with targets

 

Historical indicators on land matters in Germany

1780 end of feudal land ownership system
1800
1820
1840
1860
1880 beginning of systematic land registration
start of mechanisation of agriculture production
start of land consolidation
1900
1920
1940 valuation of agricultural land for tax and other purposes
1960 elaboration of municipal land use plans
1980 environment impact assessment
2000

Indicators on land use for Germany

Agriculture 38%
Forest 48%
Municipalities 1/3
Private 1/3
State (Länder) 1/3
Urban and Infrastructure 10%

Indicator for the land ownership pattern in Germany

individual landowners 65%
individual bodies (civil law) 3%
(like banks)
public bodies 32%
Municipalities (13%)
Länder (11%)
Federal Government (4%)
Churches ________ (4%)
100%

Indicator for the evolution of farm size and the number of farmers in my home town in South of Germany

year

population

number of farmers

area per farm (ha)

1900

5000

250

5

1950

9000

150

7

1970

12000

15

20

1990

12000

2

80