Agricultural landowners in Jamaica, particularly in rural parishes, face a distinct pattern of fraud involving misrepresentation of land classification, forged lease agreements, and false cultivation records used to assert long-term occupancy. This report examines these schemes and the particular protections available to farming families.

Water rights attached to agricultural and rural land in Jamaica have significant economic value, particularly for farming operations and livestock rearing. Fraudsters have misrepresented, forged, and manipulated water access rights to extract value from landowners and buyers. This report examines how these schemes operate.

A large portion of Jamaica’s rural land remains unregistered or registered in the names of deceased ancestors, creating chronic vulnerability to title fraud, adverse possession, and inter-family disputes. This report examines the structural causes of unregistered land, its legal consequences, and the government programmes designed to address it.