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Land Tenure Reform in Uganda. Some Reflections on the Formalisation of Customary Tenure

Survey Review, 2008
AbstractThe paper provides an overview of the history of land tenure reform in Uganda from 1900 to 2000. Methods, which were used to formalise customary tenure in Uganda, are reviewed and the effects of the first reform, which formalised customary tenure through negotiations with local leaders are reported.
N. Batungi, H. Rüther
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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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Demystifying Contemporary Customary Land Tenure in Legally Plural Southern Africa [PDF]

Journal of Law Society and Development, 2023
In this article, we seek to redebate the question: what actually do we mean when we talk of customary land tenure system in the post-independence southern African region?
Chenai Murata, Lonias Ndlovu
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CUSTOMARY FOREST TENURE IN SOUTHWEST ETHIOPIA

Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 2007
ABSTRACT The importance of forests and forest products for the livelihood of many poor rural people in tropical forest areas is indisputable. In most parts of Africa the forest is a common resource controlled by a mixture of tenure systems involving individual, family, subgroup and larger group rights and duties that operate depending on the product or
DEREJE TADESSE WAKJIRA, TADESSE WOLDEMARIAM GOLE   +1 more
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On the Customary Tenure at Carlisle called "Cullery Tenure."

2017
Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 6, 305 ...
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Marine Resources Management in the Context of Customary Tenure

Marine Resource Economics, 1992
Although customary marine tenure (CMT) systems for the management of local marine resources occur throughout the world, compared with other models of fisheries management they remain relatively little known. The Pacific Basin is especially rich in CMT systems, which play key roles in overall social, economic and cultural life of societies.
K. RUDDLE, E. HVIDING, R. E. JOHANNES
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Legal recognition and protection of customary tenure rights

Indigenous Peoples and other communities with customary tenure systems, enjoy recognitions of their legitimate tenure rights under the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National ...
FAO
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Formal and customary housing tenure initiatives in Bolivia

Habitat International, 2004
Abstract Based on research previously carried out on innovative forms of tenure within the ‘anticretico’ system of Bolivia (In: G. Payne (Ed.), Land, Rights and Innovation: Improving Tenure Security for the Urban Poor, ITDG Publishing, London, 2002), this paper looks at whether its popularity has increased or decreased and what are the causes and ...
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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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Tenure, Agricultural Investment, and Productivity in the Customary Tenure Sector of Malawi

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2001
Place, Frank, Otsuka, Keijiro
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