Land administration for food security

Food security is recognized as a key contemporary challenge for the global community (Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO] 2012): projected increases in population suggest smarter food creation and distribution mechanisms are needed at local, national, and global levels (United Nation [UN] 2014; FAO 2014). Assertions in recent years suggest land administration systems support food security: land administration potentially improves access to land, assists in securing land tenures, and subsequently promotes technology investment, which leads to improved agricultural output (Dekker 2001; Deininger 2003; Williamson et al. 2010). Furthermore, land administration systems can support land management activities including land consolidation: in some cases, aggregating fragmented parcels into larger results in more efficient agricultural production (Vitikainen 2004).