Lesotho

Lesotho is a small mountainous country with a population of 2.1 million Basotho people. Its borders are enclosed within the borders of South Africa. Just 11% of Lesotho’s land is classified as arable with less than 1% of land classified as high potential land for crop production. The majority of people live in the lowlands area (below 2000m altitude).

Indicateurs socio-économiques tout parcourir

3,036,000 ha

44.9

2,856.7 USD

2,108,132

28.2 %

Indicateurs fonciers tout parcourir

79.6 %

1.1 %

210 ha

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Lesotho

Projects

Private Sector Development Project/Land Administration Reform Activity

Valeur: $21,000,000.00

Donateurs: United States Agency for International Development

Support to decentralized Rural Development

Valeur: $11,850,000.00

Donateurs: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Smallholder Agricultural Development Project (SADP)

Valeur: $200,000.00

Donateurs: World Bank Group

Land and Natural Resources Tenure Security Learning Initiative for East and Southern Africa

Valeur: $300,000.00

Donateurs: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Lesotho has seen a rapid urbanisation with the quadrupling of its urban population between 1976 and 2006

Customary law and institutions: Comparative perspectives from Eswatini and Lesotho

6 Août 2021

By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland * This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa Institutions – societal behaviour, norms, rules, laws, and structures – emerge, develop, and are shaped by the interaction of…