There are five types of land acquisition that can be identified in rural areas which include acquisition by:
- Occupation through customary authorities, in rural areas or due to factors like soil degradation, civil war and floods people had to move from one place to another more secure and suitable for agriculture, and they have been allocated land directly by customary authority (Regulos). The customary authority were recognized by the NLL, with its function of allocating land and conflict resolution.
- Heritage, consist on acquisition of land by parents.
- formal occupation, through authorization presented by individuals or groups to government. These case has to do when someone identify land which is free. Thus, that person can apply for it formally.
- occupation, when individuals, or group of individuals which have been utilizing land for at least 10 years in good faith and For the same reason mentioned above, there are cases where people occasionally occupied free land and they have been using that land more than 10 years
- Market Land can be acquired through market which include the acquisition by buying land rights or titles, rent out or borrowing.
In district of Boane, Massaca village, Boane headquarters and Matola Rio most of the population interviewed occupied the land during civil war because this area was more secure. Nevertheless most of them were allocated by parties secretaries and others occupied expontaneously, land which were considered as marginal.
Most of those people have got plot for habitation and some of them have got another plot in irrigation schemes or near the river, where they develop agriculture activity as the main source of income. The size of those land varies from 1 to 2 ha average.
There are also many farmers who have got their land from local community, through cash transaction. In irrigation schemes, which are managed by community, land rights are also negotiated. Farmers use to sell their land rights, rent or borrow it, however the basic condition is that, the buyer has to pay water bills each month otherwise the land can be confiscated by management committee, given fact that land is titled for association. Very often small farmers, members of the association fail to pay the water fees, therefore in order to avoid problems, they rent or sell their land rights. The renter or buyer is supposed to cover the debts of the owner, pay water fees, then he/she obtain rights to exploit it.
There are cases of people who have more than one plot of land in different places and because of financial constraints, they are not able to manage it, therefore they decide to borrow it their relatives or friends.
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