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Conflicts over land and threats to customary tenure in Africa

African Affairs, 2013
Issues swirling around land across Africa have never been so central to key social and politicaleconomic dynamics as they are at the present time. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the construction of customary tenure and the historical phases of administrative interventions into land tenure, and considers their heritage in contemporary ...
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Synthesis of Customary Land Tenure Systems in Myanmar

2021
Lwin Maung Maung Swe, Maung, Nay Min, Poe Zar Chi Win, Sithu Htun   +3 more
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Law, society and the recognition of customary land tenure in Australia

2010
In Australia, the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) provided the legislative means to resolve native title claims. Successive judgments in the High Court have refined apparently ambiguous areas within the legislation. The High Court's decision in the Yorta Yorta native title case (2002) was particularly consequential for native title claims throughout ...
Dousset, Laurent, Glaskin, Katie
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Customary Land Tenure and Ecological Sustainability in Acholi Land, Northern Uganda

2017
The Acholi customary land tenure system is one of the most ecologically sustainable forms of land resource utilization in the arable and semi-arid parts of northern Uganda. It is regulated by a complex regime of rights under the authority of traditional leaders, and informed by traditional ecological knowledge of the environment, to manage the ...
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Assessing customary land rights and tenure security variations of smallholder farmers in northwest Ghana

Land Use Policy, 2021
Jaap Zevenbergen, Baslyd Nara, Mónica Lengoiboni   +2 more
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Integrating Customary Land Tenure through the Statutory Land Tenure System in Tanzania

2020
Bupe Kabigi, Walter Timo de Vries, Haule Kelvin   +2 more
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The Global Land Rush and Climate Change: Customary Land Tenure Possibilities

SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract There has been a recent rise in very large-scale transnational commercial land acquisitions in the global South—notably in sub-Saharan Africa. Such acquisitions, often referred to as land grabs, accelerated sharply after the 2007–8 world food crisis. The issue of land grabs intersects with issues of climate change.
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Safeguarding customary forest tenure in the Mekong Region: a legal analysis

Journal of Land Use Science, 2023
Sophie Rose Lewis
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Customary land tenure, customary landowners and the proposals for customary land reform in Papua New Guinea

Anthropological Forum, 1997
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Customary Land Tenure and the Birth of the Incorporated Land Group

2023
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