The African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) has put in place a number of mechanisms for land policy development and implementation including establishing or reinforcing existing platforms, generating knowledge and developing capacity. One of centre’s objectives is to contribute to knowledge generation, dissemination and management in order to enhance the evidence base for land policy development and implementation. This objective is being achieved through research, publications, and knowledge sharing and learning forums.

The status of cadastral and land information systems in Africa is assessed, with specific reference to their capacity to assist decision-makers. Recommendations and guidelines are provided for the adaptation of existing systems and/or the development of new systems, so that they can be used for land reform, physical planning and integrated land administration. The guidelines take into account the need to create land information for decision-makers without creating unaffordable costs to the state, given that the average per capita income for Africa in 1995 was USD665.

The objective of this project is to obtain quantitative means to ascertain the economic magnitude of the future development effort which will be needed in order to accommodate the growth of African towns and cities as measured against Qualitative indices expressed in terms of levels of physical development.

This document focuses on the New and emerging issues and science-policy interface; Sustainable consumption and production; and Small Island Developing States, Least Developed Countries and Land Locked Developing Countries. This report discusses the following thematic issues in the context of furthering sustainable development in Africa: new and emerging issues and the science-policy interface; sustainable consumption and production; and small island developing States, least developed countries and landlocked developing countries.

The manual systems of maintaining land records in India are as diverse as the country itself. The traditional methods have been changing over the years in each state according to local practices and traditions. The procedure for recording transfer and ownership of lands, shares and inheritance is generally based on a particular Identity number for each plot of land. Revenue assessment and agricultural yield related data are also recorded against that specific identification number.

The African land policy center (ALPC) steering committee adopted the agenda of the meeting with the suggested modification. And a presentation of progress made in implementing the decisions of previous steering committee meetings. The presentation is: The joint working group on land (JWGL) planned to deliberate on the reorganization of the ALPC steering committee membership, taking into account the ALPC strategic plan, and would table it for a decision from the steering committee.

The land in a continent as Africa is an economic resource, a basis of wealth promoting growth and human development, and a tool of empowering and governing. Most of native Africans are peasants and have their main living and fundamental infrastructures based on land and land resources. Then, land administrating and management which are largely tied to the diversity of the local cultural and traditional practicies should be enhanced in a good and scientific manner.

The Heads of States and Government of the African Union in collaboration with UNECA and AfDB, to carry out studies on the establishment of an appropriate institutional framework that can support Member States in their efforts towards reviewing, developing and implementing land policies including mechanisms for progress tracking and reporting, as well as for the establishment of an African Fund for Land Policy.

Man instinctively and intelligently takes care of himself as well as he can, and man does this test in a society of fellow humans. The natural human priority is self-preservation and fulfillment, but in the framework of the human group- where responsibilities to others give meaning to rights that each individual asserts for himself and can test us as individualst even as it sustains us- Land can unify

and ennoble us as groups, even as it tempts us to indulge the more provincial among social concerns.

The science of "survey" was known to ancient Egyptians. Drawings and

paintings on the walls of temples and tombs, and writings on papyrus, prove that ancient. Egyptians practiced surveying long ago. Paintings on the temples of Thebe display land-surveyors using linear instruments.

Most of the Cadastral surveys in the country are done by the survey and mapping division. In the laws, there is a provision for a licensed surveyor who may also carry out cadastral; surveys, but at present there is none in the country.

Nigeria has a land area of 925,768 km2 or approximately 92,4 million ha., which places her as the 14th largest country in Africa. With a population estimated at 80 million, every inhabitant theoretically has only 1.15 ha of land available for meeting basic economic, industrial and social needs. Lying between latitudes 4°N and 12°N, on the west coast of Africa and with 680 km of coastline, land is not homogenous and is therefore not fully accessible ant! utilizable for any or all of these basic needs.