Mozambique: More than 348,000 hectares of land may revert to the State

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Mozambique: More than 348,000 hectares of land may revert to the State

3:24 CAT | 18 Aug 2022

Photo: Ministério da Terra e Ambiente

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From August, 2021, to date, the Ministry of Land and Environment has inspected 658 plots of land across the country, corresponding to an area of 373,737 hectares, of which 348,535 hectares will revert to the state, following non-compliance with the plans for exploitation advanced by their users.

The information was revealed yesterday by the Minister of Land and Environment, Ivete Maibaze, at the opening of the ministry’s III Coordinating Council, which closes today. The meeting was held in Mossuril district, Nampula province, under the motto “For Sustainable Land Management in the Face of the Impacts of Land Degradation and Climate Change”.

In an enlightening speech on the institution’s performance in the last 12 months, Ivete Maibaze also mentioned the inspection of 89 Territorial Planning Instruments, of which 54 were Detailed Plans, 17 Partial Urbanisation Plans, five District Land Use Plans, five Structural Urban Plans, five Resettlement Plans, two General Urbanization Plans and one a Redevelopment Plan.

The minister also highlighted the registration of around 5,600 new requests for Land Use and Exploitation (DUAT) titles, corresponding to an area of around 4,000 hectares, as well as the issuance of around 2,940 provisional authorizations and just over 54,000 provisional DUAT authorizations that were transformed into definitive authorizations with the respective DUAT titles being issued.

“In the same period, we registered around 194,000 occupations in good faith, and issued around 65,000 DUAT titles under the ‘Terra Segura’ programme,” the minister highlighted.

Source: Ministério da Terra e Ambiente