Table of Contents - 6 List of figures - 10 Preface - 12 Acknowledgement - 20 1 PERCEPTION OF LAND TENURE SECURITY - 22 1.1 A book on land tenure security - 22 1.2 Hunger for land - 24 1.3 Land reform is not new - 26 1.4 Structure of the book - 27 2 FIELDS, LAND, ACCESS TO LAND AND STEWARDSHIP OF LAND - 32 2.1 Economics and rights to land - 32 2.2 Land and sea - 39 2.3 Stewardship - 42 2.4 Is land transferable? - 47 2.5 Are we tenants or owners? - 49 2.6 Buying and selling of (rights to) land - 53 2.7 Some land near Bethlehem? - 57 2.8 Returning to Bethlehem - 60 2.9 Part of a field near Bethlehem belonging to Boaz - 63 2.10 Purchasing a parcel of land near Bethlehem - 66 2.11 Just a field near Bethlehem in Judea? - 68 3 PEOPLE IN TRANSITION - 74 3.1 The chairman of the collective farm - 74 3.2 Private individual ownership of rights to land - 79 3.3 Urban property - 84 3.4 Rural life - 88 3.5 From customary to statutory land tenure - 93 3.5.1 Questioning change - 93 3.5.2 Introduction to statutory land tenure - 95 3.5.3 Statutory land tenure together with customary rules? - 98 3.6 Legal pluralism and self-rule - 102 3.7 The practice of indigenous self-rule - 106 3.7.1 Tuva - 106 3.7.2 Northern Canada - 109 3.7.3 What does self-rule mean in daily practice? - 111 4 PRIVATIZATION OF FARMLAND IN FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES - 124 4.1 Reversing the collectivization of farmland - 124 4.2 Sovchozy and kolchozy - 125 4.3 Janis and Vaiva - 128 4.4 Problems of large-scale farming - 131 4.5 Legislation regulating land reform - 133 4.6 Different land reform projects - 135 4.7 Where are my (former) fields? - 136 4.8 Limitations on the size of the land - 138 4.9 Constraints for creating successful private farms - 140 4.10 The actual process of de-collectivization - 142 4.11 Institutional framework for restitution - 144 4.12 Data on restituted land - 149 4.13 Land registration/cadastre and a market economy - 151 4.14 Opportunities to establish a land registration - 154 4.15 Land reform; almost done? - 155 4.16 Privatization in hindsight - 157 5 RAPID RESULTS AND POSTPONED PROBLEMS OR THOROUGH RESEARCH AND SUSTAINED SOLUTIONS? - 164 5.1 Land tenure and land reform - 164 5.2 The economic growth paradigm and the food security paradigm - 167 5.3 Land tenure change in post communist countries - 168 5.4 A new approach to rights to common land - 172 5.5 Development of land tenure systems - 175 5.6 Danger of limited dimensional approaches - 177 5.7 Individual ownership - 179 5.8 Communal ownership - 181 5.9 Individual and communal tenure systems - 185 5.10 Evolutionary theory of land rights - 186 5.11 Additional measures for sustainable solutions - 190 5.12 The challenge: designing an idiosyncratic system - 192 6 LAND TENURE SECURITY IN A UNITED EUROPE - 198 6.1 Increased insecurity? - 198 6.2 Second home or pie in the sky? - 199 6.3 Registration of rights to land - 203 6.4 Four types of land registration - 207 6.5 Criteria for land registration to protect rights to land - 209 6.6 Comprehensive comparison between positive and negative systems - 213 6.7 Moment of transfer of rights to land - 216 6.8 Security of rights to land offered by the government - 218 6.9 Title insurance - 220 6.10 Title insurance and existing land registrations - 225 7 MEASURES AND LAND TENURE SECURITY - 228 7.1 Measures - 228 7.2 The metric system - 232 7.3 Land registration in the USA - 235 7.4 Economic interest - 242 7.5 Landed property - 245 7.6 The final decision maker - 248 7.7 Pursuing land tenure security - 250 Glossary - 258 Index - 266