Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1 PERCEPTION OF LAND TENURE SECURITY -- 1.1 A book on land tenure security -- 1.2 Hunger for land -- 1.3 Land reform is not new -- 1.4 Structure of the book -- 2 FIELDS, LAND, ACCESS TO LAND AND STEWARDSHIP OF LAND -- 2.1 Economics and rights to land -- 2.2 Land and sea -- 2.3 Stewardship -- 2.4 Is land transferable? -- 2.5 Are we tenants or owners? -- 2.6 Buying and selling of (rights to) land -- 2.7 Some land near Bethlehem? -- 2.8 Returning to Bethlehem -- 2.9 Part of a field near Bethlehem belonging to Boaz -- 2.10 Purchasing a parcel of land near Bethlehem -- 2.11 Just a field near Bethlehem in Judea? -- 3 PEOPLE IN TRANSITION -- 3.1 The chairman of the collective farm -- 3.2 Private individual ownership of rights to land -- 3.3 Urban property -- 3.4 Rural life -- 3.5 From customary to statutory land tenure -- 3.5.1 Questioning change -- 3.5.2 Introduction to statutory land tenure -- 3.5.3 Statutory land tenure together with customary rules? -- 3.6 Legal pluralism and self-rule -- 3.7 The practice of indigenous self-rule -- 3.7.1 Tuva -- 3.7.2 Northern Canada -- 3.7.3 What does self-rule mean in daily practice? -- 4 PRIVATIZATION OF FARMLAND IN FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES -- 4.1 Reversing the collectivization of farmland -- 4.2 Sovchozy and kolchozy -- 4.3 Janis and Vaiva -- 4.4 Problems of large-scale farming -- 4.5 Legislation regulating land reform -- 4.6 Different land reform projects -- 4.7 Where are my (former) fields? -- 4.8 Limitations on the size of the land -- 4.9 Constraints for creating successful private farms -- 4.10 The actual process of de-collectivization -- 4.11 Institutional framework for restitution -- 4.12 Data on restituted land -- 4.13 Land registration/cadastre and a market economy -- 4.14 Opportunities to establish a land registration.

4.15 Land reform -- almost done? -- 4.16 Privatization in hindsight -- 5 RAPID RESULTS AND POSTPONED PROBLEMS OR THOROUGH RESEARCH AND SUSTAINED SOLUTIONS? -- 5.1 Land tenure and land reform -- 5.2 The economic growth paradigm and the food security paradigm -- 5.3 Land tenure change in post communist countries -- 5.4 A new approach to rights to common land -- 5.5 Development of land tenure systems -- 5.6 Danger of limited dimensional approaches -- 5.7 Individual ownership -- 5.8 Communal ownership -- 5.9 Individual and communal tenure systems -- 5.10 Evolutionary theory of land rights -- 5.11 Additional measures for sustainable solutions -- 5.12 The challenge: designing an idiosyncratic system -- 6 LAND TENURE SECURITY IN A UNITED EUROPE -- 6.1 Increased insecurity? -- 6.2 Second home or pie in the sky? -- 6.3 Registration of rights to land -- 6.4 Four types of land registration -- 6.5 Criteria for land registration to protect rights to land -- 6.6 Comprehensive comparison between positive and negative systems -- 6.7 Moment of transfer of rights to land -- 6.8 Security of rights to land offered by the government -- 6.9 Title insurance -- 6.10 Title insurance and existing land registrations -- 7 MEASURES AND LAND TENURE SECURITY -- 7.1 Measures -- 7.2 The metric system -- 7.3 Land registration in the USA -- 7.4 Economic interest -- 7.5 Landed property -- 7.6 The final decision maker -- 7.7 Pursuing land tenure security -- Glossary -- Index.