This paper uses the 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census data to answer some pertinent issues on land acquisition for planting by households in Botswana. Of the total 550946 households, about 50% households acquired land by any means of land acquisition mode. The highest households response who acquired land for planting was from landboard (60%) followed by inheritance (17.4%) and employer/relatives (14.2%). The Central District had the largest share of the allocations, the largest (62%) allocation came from Land boards followed through employer/relative (14%) and inheritance (13%). The percentage distributions of households’response by usual economically active and inactive were 69.6% and 30.4% (both sexes), 80.3% and 19.7% (male) and 58% and 42 % (female). In 2001 Census, this distribution also followed the same trend such as the proportion of usual active and inactive were 60.6% and 39.4% (both sexes), 73.4% and 26.6% (male), 58.0% and 42.0% (female). Within the self allocation mode, 33.01% of the household heads response was from agriculture, hunting and forestry industry and 45.56% were from other industry. Most of households who responded that they acquired the land for farming through landboards were in the elementary occupations (23.49%). The households who stated that they allocated land for themselves, majority of them are in the elementary occupation and skilled agricultural and related workers with 36.95% and 36.78% respectively.

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