Relevance of Land Tenure Security to Rural Land Use Planning

Abstract: The study review literatures on the relevance of land tenure security in rural land use planning. The introductory part of the paper gives background information about land, land tenure security, and land use planning with an emphasis on disadvantaged groups known as vulnerable in rural areas. A literature review, which forms another section of the work, reveals the in-depth concept of rural land use planning, land tenure, and land tenure security. The latter part of the paper examined the relevance of land tenure security in rural land use planning. Based on the literature reviewed, the study discovered that land tenure security is relevant in rural land use planning in the following ways: sustainable use of land, improvement in land productivity, livelihood security, sustainable community, land use conflict, and dispute resolution, poverty alleviation, reduction in environmental degradation, and food security. The study concluded that land tenure security is interlinked with rural land use planning and should be considered an important issue for rural development.