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, 2019 Te Tiriti o Waitangi, signed between Māori rangatira (chiefs) and the British Crown in 1840 guaranteed to Māori the ‘full, exclusive and undisturbed possession of their lands’.
Wynyard M, Matthew Wynyard
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Challenges in Systematic Property Registration in Romania: An Analytical Overview
LandAfter the fall of communism, Romania embarked on a comprehensive land restitution process through Law No. 18/1991, aiming to re-establish private ownership rights, particularly for agricultural and forestry lands.
Vasile Gherheș +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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The challenges of land restitution in Colombia
, 2015 Land is an important natural resource, serving as the literal bedrock for developing countries, tackling poverty by providing food security and export dividends.
Nilsson, Manuela,
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and background Land governance in post-colonial African cities continues to be shaped by historical injustices that have dispossessed communities through exclusionary urban planning, informal settlement demolitions, and legally sanctioned ...
Waidi
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Land On Trial: Law, Forced Displacement and Land Restitution In Colombia
, 2019 This dissertation addresses Colombia’s 2011 “Victims’ and Land Restitution Law” and the state’s adoption of international legal parameters to address forced displacement.
Counter, Max
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THE RESTITUTION OF LAND RIGHTS AND THE RECOGNITION OF DIVERSE FORMS OF LAND TENURE
ObiterSouth Africa’s system of land law is dominated by a civil law methodology. One of the consequences of this dominance is that only those forms of land tenure which are based on civil law concepts, for example ownership and limited real rights, have been recognised, supported and protected by the property law system.
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Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa
Review of African Political Economy, 2010 Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa, by Cherryl Walker, Athens, OH and Auckland Park, Ohio University Press and Jacana Media, 2008, xii + 292 pp., $26.95, ISBN 9780821418703 Wal...
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