Land involves a wide range of rights and responsibilities. It is in demand by a wide range of users, institutions and interest groups for different and often conflicting reasons, for example, housing and livelihoods, access to credit, investment, cultural heritage, and political power. Competing claims over land often occur under conditions of unequal power and resources. Rich people and the middle classes have the means, knowledge and connections to buy and sell land, register it officially, demand services, use land as collateral to borrow money, and defend their rights to it. influences economic outcomes, social relations, governance, and national development.