Ethiopia to Adopt Land Registration System

Ethiopia will copy Rwanda's land registration process because it is efficient and cheap.
Tigistu G. Abza, the Ethiopian Director of Rural Land Administration and Use Directorate, was impressed by the system after a one-week study tour in the country.
Ethiopia applies a traditional method
"The government thought it better to shift to the modern method and we were referred by the World Bank to come here to learn about Rwanda's system," said Tigistu.
Rwanda uses the digital land registration which saves time.
"This aerial photography method seems to be efficient, cheap and quick to carry out," he underscored.
An alternative for this method is the geographic information system, which also requires cars for transport and surveyors to measure plots.Read More
of registering land, using rope for measurements, he said.