Redesign land governance to recognize and formalize customary tenure systems rather than replacing them with Western property law. Three integrated components: (1) Customary Tenure Recognition: National legislation and land codes that explicitly recognize customary, communal, and indigenous land rights as legally enforceable alongside individual freehold title.

This is not a parallel system but a unified legal framework where customary rights are registered and protected. Rwanda's post-2000 land law reform provides a model: community-level dispute resolution for customary claims, registered by village authorities and archived in decentralized databases.

(2) Community-Led Mapping: Land boundaries determined by communities themselves using participatory mapping — not surveyors imposing grid-based registration. Low-cost satellite imagery and mobile apps enable communities to define boundaries that make sense locally. Communities validate and control the data.

(3) Blockchain-Based Distributed Registries: Rather than centralized government land registries vulnerable to political capture and corruption, use distributed ledgers where communities maintain copies of their own land records. Smart contracts enforce dispute resolution protocols.

This is not 'cryptocurrency' — it's using immutable distributed databases for tenure records, with offline resilience so connectivity gaps don't exclude people.