Land and literacy were never separate entities until the whitemen came along and told us so. When you wanted to make a garden, you looked at the ground and the trees and the rivers, and then settled on where to make your garden. This is literacy. All land boundaries, important landmarks, rivers, were all in our heads until the whitemen came and told us to write them down. A couple of years ago, there was popular uprising throughout Papua New Guinea when the World Bank tried to have all land in the country registered.
Land registration makes it easier for outsiders to come in and exploit the resources.
Land registration would make the sale of land more likely and mean that it is less likely to be used for the community's good or even the long term benefit of the individual. Land now becomes a commodity that can be bought and sold, and like most consumer goods, the person with the money has the power. We want to make people realise that while they own the land, they have power and control over their own lives, but once this power is taken away from them, they lose control over their lives. For the whitemen, land equals money, whereas we equate land with life, worth more than all the money in the world or all the consumer goods like television or trucks. When you have sold your land, and the money runs out, and the trucks breakdown, you then realise that you have no way to survive.