ABSTRACT
Institutional changes will affect several elements; changing opportunity sets, changing access to land, and changing resource use. Land reform aims at a change of the existing patterns of land tenure. To prevent the change from being felt as a threat, institutional arrangements and regulations in which the individual right holder can find protection of rights must be put in place. Especially for land, institutionalization must support in providing security of tenure for the owners of the rights to land, legislation must provide long-term rights and protection for the exclusive use of land. Land reform requires the commitment of the government and can only be successful with sufficient supportive residual policies. The Constitution, the Civil Code and the Land Code of the Kyrgyz Republic indicate a possibility of private ownership of land. Local authorities were flexible in the application of the moratorium on house plots.
