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Tenure security, land registration and customary tenure in a peri-urban Accra community

Land Use Policy, 2014
The study examines the strategies that people use to secure their interests in land in a peri-urban Accra customary community. In a contested chieftaincy, customary leaders sell agricultural and virgin land to strangers for residential purposes, causing conflict and altering traditional livelihoods, and the proceeds of the sales do not flow to members ...
Michael Barry
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Customary land tenure and the new land policy in Malawi

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2004
Malawi occupies an area of 118 484 square kilometres, of which 94 076 are arable land. More than 80 per cent of the country's population, estimated at nearly 11 million, depends on agriculture for its livelihood. In addition to being an important economic resource, land is valued as a basis for social security.
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The Land Tenure System Under the Customary Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
The paper seeks to examine landholding system under customary law. It shall explore the intricacies of the land tenure system under the Nigerian customary law concerning the provision of the Land Use Act. In spite of the confusion the Land Use Act brought on the customary land tenure system such that there was uncertainty as to the existence or ...
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Customary Land-Tenure and the Poor: A Study of Jharkhand and Meghalaya

Social Change, 2020
For most people living in rural India having access and control over land is crucial for their livelihood, more so in the case of tribals. This article analyses the nature of the customary land-tenure system in some districts of Jharkhand and Meghalaya and their impact on livelihood patterns, food security and poverty.
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Land Law and the Transformation of Customary Tenure: The Mbeere Case

Journal of African Law, 1976
The Mbeere of Central Kenya have recently been the focus of a programme of land adjudication and registration. Since the early 1960s when the Mbeere anticipated that they too would undergo the land reform process that had been applied elsewhere in Kenya, much of their attention has been riveted to the question of land tenure change.
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Land pressure and customary tenure: Cropland allocations in Swaziland

Natural Resources Forum, 2007
Abstract This paper examines the effects of growing land pressure on the distribution and quality of cropland allocations on customary tenured land (CTL) in Swaziland. Within the wider Sub‐Saharan context, the reform of indigenous tenure systems is now generally seen as a process of adaptation rather than replacement. The legal recognition of (existing
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Chapter Five. Customary Land Tenure and Communal Holdings

2008
This chapter discusses the meaning of customary land tenure and communal holdings. Customary rights and liabilities, it is claimed, are accessed through oral traditions just as property rights in modern Western countries are understood through codified laws. The chapter discusses the issues that are raised by James Fingleton.
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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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