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Governability of Customary Land Tenure Institutions: insights from Odupongkpehe Customary Area in Ghana [PDF]
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 Context and background The role of customary land tenure institutions in land governance is immeasurable. Notwithstanding the enormous role of customary land tenure institutions in local land governance, they are fraught with problems.
Anthony Acquah Mensah
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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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Renegotiating Customary Tenure Reform – Land Governance Reform and Tenure Security in Uganda
Land Use Policy, 2014 In academic and policy debates on how to effectively secure land tenure, an uncompromising belief inthe need to formalize and title landownership has increasingly given way to an acknowledgement of thecontributions non-state, ‘customary’ or otherwise local institutions may make in securing tenure.
Mathijs van Leeuwen
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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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A need for a tenure arrangement for refugees on customary land
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2023 Context and background: Increasing refugee crisis has focused most host states to integrate refugees with the local communities through land access to customary land whose land rights are not clearly defined and documented.
Sophia Lukabwe Nagujja
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Customary Land Tenure Values in Nagari Kayu Tanam, West Sumatra [PDF]
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022 The transfer of rights or transactions does not exist in customary land tenure because it is a common property; thus, it can never be transferred to another party.
Gamal Abdul Nasir, Ade Saptomo
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Communities’ role in securing customary land tenure in Zambia
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2018 Community land and natural resources lie at the heart of social, political and economic life in much of rural Africa. While the Zambian government acknowledges customary tenure, it has not established required legislation needed to secure it and support ...
Tapuwa Wambe Langton Nzara
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An Assessment of Customary Tenure Systems in the Lao PDR
, 2022 The history of land rights in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), hereafter referred to as Laos, is a history of customary land tenure systems which remain the most prevalent form of land tenure. As social systems, land tenure systems in Laos have been affected by and have adapted to external forces such as neighboring kingdoms ...
Hackman, Richard
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Customary Tenure Trusteeships and Land Governance Reforms: A Necessary Convergence
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 Issues surrounding customary land governance reforms remain at the forefront of policy reforms in many African countries because of concern over discriminatory rules of access, exchange, and inheritance, corruption, elite capture, and illegal land ...
Rexford Anno-Nyako Ahene
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CUSTOMARY VERSUS CONVENTIONAL LAND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022 Context and background: The essential emerging reality from the statutory-versus-customary tenure debate is that both customary and statutory tenure systems have faults and good merits.
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu +2 more
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