BIDPA reports lack of coordination in land management

Lack of coordination between urban and rural land authorities hampers land management in Botswana, according to a Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) study that has been gathering dust on office shelves since it was released some years ago.

The rapidly increasing demand for land and its shortage in urban and rural land areas has created pressure on peri-urban areas, the study says.

The report also notes that though land is not elastic, the population keeps growing. It refers to the 1990s land acquisition in Mogoditshane which spiralled into a virtual land grab.

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