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Zimbabwe secures funds for land audit
17 Feb 2014 at 09:46hrs | Views
The ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement has secured more than $7 million from donors to fund its two year action plan, among them the land audit.
After getting an allocation of only $10 million in the 2014 national budget, the ministry had indefinitely shelved plans to carry out a land audit.
In an interview, the minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, revealed that his ministry was set to embark on a two year programme of action using funds availed by the European Union and the UNDP.
He said the funds amount to over $7 million, adding that part of the work that would be carried out by the ministry includes a preliminary land audit exercise.
Mombeshora said part of the funds would be channeled towards work that was being done by the Surveyor General's Office of mapping out new base maps.
The land audit seeks to address various issues, among them land disputes, cases of multiple farm ownership, account for land that was being used productively as well as investigate reports that some resettled farmers were leasing out their farms to white commercial farmers.
After getting an allocation of only $10 million in the 2014 national budget, the ministry had indefinitely shelved plans to carry out a land audit.
In an interview, the minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement, Dr Douglas Mombeshora, revealed that his ministry was set to embark on a two year programme of action using funds availed by the European Union and the UNDP.
He said the funds amount to over $7 million, adding that part of the work that would be carried out by the ministry includes a preliminary land audit exercise.
Mombeshora said part of the funds would be channeled towards work that was being done by the Surveyor General's Office of mapping out new base maps.
The land audit seeks to address various issues, among them land disputes, cases of multiple farm ownership, account for land that was being used productively as well as investigate reports that some resettled farmers were leasing out their farms to white commercial farmers.
Source - zbc
