I am an economist in the World Bank, working on the rural sector in South Asia. As a generalist, I am a dilettante with respect to land. In the discussions, I note the concern over transaction costs, the varieties of ownership registration and the implied central role of the state. So i would like to throw a query into play before the conference closes. Society has many more valuable assets than land whose ownership are registered privately.
Financial assets are a major example.
The state may set standards for operation of these services, support these with legislation wherein ownership disputes may be resolved, and use the information bases therein for revenue collection. Even this is now of dubious value, due to the difficulty of directly taxing farmers in developing economies. Let government set standards, and audit and publicly report on performance and let the private sector do the rest.