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5.22 CONTROL OVER LAND

Data ID

Description:

Control of the land: private, central government, local government, traditional authority

Chapter:

5 Land and History

File name:

control over land

File type:

Arcview shapefile

Geographical area:

Namibia

Keywords:

land

control

Notes on data, analysis and

Created from the following sources:

compilation:

1) Private on freehold land was derived from the farms map provided by Marina Coetzee at Ministry of Agriculture,

Water and Rural Development (this had ownership details up to date to 1998 from Deeds Office).

2) Central government land was derived from:

- farms map provided by Marina Coetzee at MAWRD (Note that for several hundred farms, no deed records were

available. It was assumed therefore that this was by default government land).

- Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (info on land purchases and donations) - assumed to be more

reliable than MAWRD data

- Land values database (compiled from several sources, including ministries and Deeds Office) - assumed to be less reliable

than MAWRD data, therefore only used to fill in gaps

- protected areas (Fig 5.33)

3) Local Authority land was derived from Fig 5.19

4) Traditional authority land was derived from communal land shapefile (Fig 5.21)

5) Private on communal land was derived from the North Central Profile (Mendelsohn, el Obeid & Roberts), the

Kavango Profile (Mendelsohn in prep) and various informal communications.

Data quality and organisation

Positional Accuracy:

variable - at worst as accurate as the farm shapefile (see Fig 5.32) (1:100 000 scale; 50 - 250 m positional accuracy).

Vector/Raster:

Vector

Spatial reference

Projection:

Geographic

Fields

Field name

Field description