Due to the significant differences between the various forms of allocation of rural land in terms of social justice and to the strong possibility of this to happen for the urban land, the Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Affairs and UN-HABITAT, requested to Cruzeiro do Sul to undertake a study of the urban land market in Mozambique.
The aim is at identifying the coverage and the dynamics of the urban land markets, surveying the implications of the same and identifying prevention mechanisms of social injustices in the tenure and use of the urban land. Mechanisms that can revert the eventual trend of unsustainable urban growth, as well as improving the economic and social use of the urban land, aimed at upgrading the life quality of the citizens, will be explored.
For this to happen, the identification of the forms of access to the land, the comparison of the land allocation efficiency and the estimation of the market value of the urban land was undertaken. The rural-urban linkage had as background the modelling of the sustainable urban growth of the cities of small and average size. The model constructed – MoCUS, is meant to assist city councils and stakeholders of the civil society in resources management, urban planning, prevention of social conflicts, and in strengthening the economic and social use of the urban space.
Urban Land Market In Mozambique