ABSTRACT
Land tenure (from the Latin tenere meaning “to hold”) refers to those arrangements that define the rights of ownership in and use of agricultural land. Legal, contractual, or customary in nature, it embodies the complex relationships obtaining between people-as individuals or as groups-and the land, relationships reflecting a range of rights over the land-as landlords, tenants, sharecroppers, or other categories of claimants. It also reflects the formal rules and procedures governing these relationships.
