African Traditional Land Tenure and Agricultural Development: Case Study of the Kunda People in Jumbe

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Title:	African Traditional Land Tenure and Agricultural Development: Case Study of the Kunda People in Jumbe
Author:	Ng'andwe, Chiselebwe
Year:	1976
Periodical:	African Social Research
Issue:	21
Period:	June
Pages:	51-67
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	Kunda (Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe) customary law land law agricultural development Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Abstract:	This essay examines the view, that traditional land tenure systems are a major constraint on African agricultural development, in the light of a study of the Kunda people in Jumbe, in the Eastern Province of Zambia: The Kunda people - Traditional ownership of land among the Kunda - Individual tenure - Economic aspects of traditional tenure - Communal tenure - Individual tenure - Other weakness of the Kunda Tenure system: scattered pieces of land - Conclusions. Ref., notes.