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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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State-Customary Interactions and Agrarian Change in Ghana. The Case of Nkoranza Traditional Area
Land, 2020 While agrarian change has been a recurrent theme in Ghana’s endeavor for economic development, questions on how land resources should be managed to ensure prompt attainment of economic growth remain unanswered.
Selorm Kobla Kugbega
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Innovative Customary Land Governance in Zambia: Experiences, Lessons Learned and Emerging Impacts
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 In Zambia, security of tenure for communities residing under customary land tenure settings has in recent years increasingly come under threat owing to the pressures of high rate of urbanization, speculation, subdivision and conversion to state land ...
DAVID KATUNGULA
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2021 To benefit from the underutilised potential of urban land resources, the introduction and improvement of land registration and cadastral systems have been advocated. However, evidence from empirical research in a number of developing economies including
BENJAMIN ARMAH QUAYE
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Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia : Anthropological Perspectives [PDF]
, 2007 The main theme of this volume is a discussion of the ways in which legal mechanisms, such as the Land Groups Incorporation Act (1974) in PNG, and the Native Title Act (1993) in Australia, do not, as they purport, serve merely to identify and register already-existing customary indigenous landowning groups in these countries.
Weiner, James, Glaskin, Katie
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 This chapter investigated threats of statutory tenure on customary land. The study was primarily qualitative in nature and adopted a case study approach.
Anthony Mushinge +2 more
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Blue Papers, 2022 Heritage and culture not only shape the customary tenure of land and forest resources of most indigenous peoples and local communities in low-income rural areas, but also community members’ mutual relations vis-à-vis their water resources, or, in other ...
Barbara van Koppen
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Women and Land Tenure in Zambia: Legal and Customary Challenges for Women
Archives of Current Research International, 2022 Zambia has a dual land tenure system recognized by the constitution and land policy which govern land in all parts of the Country. The Customary system governs the land under the control of traditional leaders while the statutory tenure system governs all land that is titled.
Kalinda, Roy +2 more
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HUMANITY & MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, 2023 The fact that customary land is not included as an object of land registration in Government Regulation No. 24/1997 causes indigenous peoples' control over customary land not to be based on rights that can be proven in writing. This causes the rights of indigenous peoples over their customary land to be marginalised.
Firmansyah Fikri Hayqa +2 more
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BHUMI: Jurnal Agraria dan Pertanahan: The high frequency of agrarian conflicts involving customary land reflects the weak legal protection of communal land rights. In response, the government issued Presidential Regulation Number 62 of 2023 concerning the acceleration of agrarian reform ...
Destriananda Safa Aina +5 more
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