Land Tenure Security Sustainability Transitions: Conflicts and Constraints on the Right to Land in Egypt

Ninety percent of Egypt’s land is insecure land holdings. There have been many legal problems in Egypt due to the confrontations between landowners and landlords on the one hand and landlords and the government-run land registry organizations on the other. Because of the cumbersome registration process and ambiguous legislation, many landowners cannot have official property security. Uncertainty about the three pillars—state, capital, society—and bad land management/management are the causes of these convoluted procedures. The right to use, exploit, and sell land is part of property rights. Starting from a case study in the city of Benha, this chapter examines the recognition of two land tenures, de facto and de jure recognitions, the latter by law and the former by practise, implemented to protect land rights through various processes and urban transition features. Fundamental concerns of land governance are the land registry procedures and the importance of secure land. The study uses a deductive approach to explain how people can maintain land tenure security through urban transitions that make recognition of land rights acceptable to residents while continuing to obey the law. Within the legal framework, the owner of the item has the right to use, exploit and dispose of his or her property within the meaning of the concept of property. The study’s conclusion calls for changes to legitimate legal land registration processes to better protect land rights and support sustainable land governance transitions.