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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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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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Law, land, development and narrative: a case-study from the South Pacific [PDF]
, 2010 Although most land in Vanuatu is held under customary land tenure and governed therefore by unwritten laws, it is the subject of much dispute. Litigation is frequent in both formal and informal forums.
Farran S, Sue Farran, Farran, Sue
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Governance and Customary Land Tenure in Peri-Urban Kasoa in Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 In Ghana, like in other Sub Saharan African (SSA) countries, land commands economic as well as social, cultural and political value. Access to land therefore becomes crucial to both government and farmers, given the rapid rate of urbanization with ...
Nyasulu, Tapiwa Uchizi
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Land, 2021 The struggles of women to access and hold landuse and other land property rights under the customary tenure system in peri-urban communal areas is increasingly becoming a cause for concern.
Emaculate Ingwani
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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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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 IntroductionThe shea ecosystem provides critical ecosystem services. However, rapid peri-urbanization threatens the governance of peri-land and shea tree resources and poses multiple risks to urban and peri-urban households.
Elias Danyi Kuusaana
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Towards Responsible Consolidation of Customary Lands: A Research Synthesis
Land, 2019 The use of land consolidation on customary lands has been limited, though land fragmentation persists. Land fragmentation on customary lands has two main causes—the nature of the customary land tenure system, and the somewhat linked agricultural system ...
Kwabena Asiama +2 more
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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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The political economy of land tenure in Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2008 In surveying the literature on land tenure reform in Africa, what can readily be observed is that much of that body of work has comprised a markedly econometric and technical focus, to the neglect of evidently contiguous political factors.
Davies, Steven J.
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