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THE METHODOLOGY USED TO INTERPRET CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE [PDF]
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2012 Customary land tenure is normally not based on codified or statutory sources, but stems from customary traditions and norms. When westernised courts have to interpret and adjudicate these customary traditions and norms, the normal rules of statutory ...
Gerrit Pienaar
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Dilemma of customary land policy in Indonesia
Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2019 Indonesia’s policy of customary land regulation does not eradicate the problems faced by indigenous people. Disputes over customary land proprietary rights continue to occur even in this current era of decentralization and democracy.
Aura Dian Marta +3 more
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Jurnal Ilmiah Dunia Hukum, 2023 This article examines the legal protection for customary land rights based on forest law in Indonesia. The study of customary land is important because customary land is the communal ownership of land subject to customary law.
Widyorini Indriasti Wardani
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Analyzing the Changes of the Meaning of Customary Land in the Context of Land Grabbing in Malawi
Land, 2021 Ordinary Malawians who live in customary land have been suffering from land grabbing due to their weak and ill-defined land rights. Although Malawi has experienced a number of land reforms that should have contributed to strengthening customary land ...
Yuh-Jin Bae
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APPRAISAL OF THIRTY-THREE CUSTOMARY LAND SECRETARIATS IN GHANA
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 The government of Ghana through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources of Ghana has been assisting customary land authorities to strengthen customary land administration through the establishment customary land secretariats.
Gad Asorwoe Akwensivie
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Analyzing the Connection between Customary Land Rights and Land Grabbing: A Case Study of Zambia
Land, 2023 Since the global crises in the 2000s, many foreign and domestic actors have acquired large tracts of land for food and biofuel crop cultivation and other purposes in Africa, often leading to the displacement of the African people living on customary land.
Yuh Jin Bae
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Could Mapping Initiatives Catalyze the Interpretation of Customary Land Rights in Ways that Secure Women’s Land Rights? [PDF]
Land, 2020 Although land forms the basis for marginal livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, the asset is more strategic for women as they usually hold derived and dependent rights to land in customary tenure areas.
Gaynor Paradza +2 more
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Responsible consolidation of customary lands: A framework for land reallocation
Land Use Policy, 2019 Land reallocation is an important step of land consolidation where farmland parcels are reorganised and redistributed. Most current land reallocation approaches focus on the technical aspects, at the expense of the social, cultural, economic, and political factors which are important on customary lands.
Kwabena Asiama +2 more
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Customary Land Conversion in African Cities
, 2023 We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways.
Pierre M. Picard, Harris Selod
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Land valuation in support of responsible land consolidation on Ghana’s rural customary lands [PDF]
Survey Review, 2018 Land valuation is an important aspect of land consolidation where farm parcels are appraised to seta basis for farmland parcel exchange, reallocation, and expansion. There are two approaches to land valuation in land consolidation – the agronomic value, with its basis being the soil productivity and quality, and the market value.
Kwabena Asiama +2 more
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