Date
2022-04
Authors
RAZAKAMANANA, Marilys
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Abstract
Land governance is needed to develop agriculture, protect environment, and
ensure peace and security. It can improve the quality of life and well-being
of the population. Finding concrete evidence upon which to base land policy
requires the availability of accurate and up to date data and information on
land. Therefore, an inventory of socio-economic land data has been carried out
and strategies have been developed. Following stakeholders’ interviews and
literature review on land in Madagascar, the aim is to inform decision-makers
on policy measures that can improve these data and their accessibility. Socio
economic data exist but are very scattered and are not updated. Most of them are
stored on paper. Moreover, archiving is not compliant with standards. While statistics
can be accessed, the data bases are inaccessible. Although the Observatory of
Land (OATF) should ensure the management of most of socio-economic land data,
conditions of accessibility depend rather on donors who finance the studies and
surveys. Because of these problems, policy measures should consist of improving
the quality of socio-economic land data and facilitating their accessibility.