These maps will also facilitate the resolution of decades-long problems of land use and land tenure.
World Bank research suggests that legal tangles over land tenure hobble efforts to upgrade them.
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Payments for areas subject to disputed ownership could be held in escrow, providing real incentives to regularise land tenure.
Crofting is a form of regulated land tenure, unique to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, which is subject to the Crofting Acts.
The people implementing the reform program sometimes yield to pressure from local politicians or worry more about their own tenure than land tenure.
And it is exacerbated by the return of millions of war refugees and by decades of upheaval that have left land tenure in chaos.
The broader aim is to formalise land tenure in a country where only 40% of farms have titles and only half have been valued.
Top of many reformers' wish-list is secure individual land tenure.
Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.
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