Abstract:
The objective of this study looks at the effectiveness of land certification on sustainable
investments on land management in Doyogena wereda. It also looks the status of securing
land rights made by landholders after land certification program and extent and
composition of disputes over land. Primary data were collected through survey
questionnaire, group discussion, key informant interview and field observation, while
secondary data were collected from governmental organizations carried out in three
administrative kebeles from the total fourteen kebeles. Sample kebeles were selected by
using simple random (lottery) sampling technique and 99 households were studied. The data
were analyzed by using qualitative techniques (verbal description), statistical analyses and
correlation analysis. As the results, tenure security was low during the past regimes because
of frequent land redistribution and this contributes a lot towards natural resource (land)
degradation in the wereda. Most of the existing rural economic and social situations of the
wereda can be traced back as manifestations of tenure insecurity. However, in response to
the insecurity problem the current government has been taken measures of rural land
certification to increase tenure security by granting holding certificate as legal evidence.
Land certification has positive and significant effect in securing land rights of holders in
general and the incentive to improve investments on land management and soil f ertility
management in particular. In addition, land related disputes are decreased and the
vulnerable group of the society especially women land rights are protected as a result of
holding certificate. Moreover, there was low productivity of farm because of increasing
price of inputs such as fertilizer and low awareness for certificate as collateral /guarantee/
to the financial institute and can get credits to buy farm inputs. In general, the findings of
the study demonstrate that the feeling of land rights security is increasing through time,
while land certification carried out to increase tenure security has been achieving its
intended objectives and is sustainably effective in improving investments on land
management of landholders in the study wereda.
