ABSTRACT
As the country is one of the most densely populated in Africa, fragmentation of land holdings has always been a focus of concern for the Rwandan government. This chapter attempts to make contributions particularly regarding the following two points. First, it clarifies the whole picture of Rwandas post-conflict policy interventions regarding land. Since the end of the civil war, a wide range of policy interventions have been made regarding land. Second, the chapter is also based on information collected during field research that the authors have carried out since 1999 in two cells in the southern and eastern provinces. Land disputes constitute clear symptoms of insecurity over land tenure. While a couple of research projects touched on this subject before the civil war in the 1990s, their judgements varied considerably. Land policies in post-conflict Rwanda have various effects on land tenure security. With regard to land sharing, their consequences have been contrasting for the old-case returnees and the original inhabitants.
