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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Customary Tenure"”.
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Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana
Customary tenure is the predominant land tenure system in Ghana. It has been practiced for many years. Customary land tenure is built on the foundations of an African concept of land, distinguished by centrality of community, spirituality, and mutual dependence of the individual and the community. …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
… formal land administration or romanticised customary tenure systems. Recent policy trends have emphasised the integration of customary and state tenure systems as a nascent strategy to achieve equitable land delivery. Conceptually embedded in the exploratory concepts of co-production and …
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Burkina Faso: The Effects of Environmental Migration on the Implementation of Agro-ecological methods, Exchanges and Cooperation
… rights were secured by monetization rather than customary tenure experienced more cooperation between locals and migrants and with the extension services.
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The politics of decentralisation and indigenous revivalism in Sulawesi, Indonesia
… and then extend to remedial rights including customary tenure, resource entitlement, and the right to return to antedated systems of governance. In the era of decentralisation there is no unified, grand procedural strategy for dealing with the political challenges posed by adat revivalism. In …
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Roles of grasslands in sustainable improvement of land productivity in Bukoba District, Tanzania
… in land productivity. However, changes in land tenure systems particularly for grasslands in recent years have undermined the functionality of the agro-ecological system. This study was designed to explore the roles of grasslands in sustainable improvements of land productivity through …
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Governance Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Land Guards and Land Protection in Ghana
… riddled with conflict because of competing land tenure systems. Having transitioned through customary tenure systems to bureaucratic property rights regimes without a complete shift from the former, Ghana’s land management system, over time, has witnessed administrative challenges such that some …
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Gender dimensions of land policy in contemporary Mozambique : a case study of Ndixe village, Marracuene District, southern Mozambique
… I investigate the meaning and significance of 'customary' tenure in the present day context, some 25 years after Independence and after the end of 16 years of armed conflict in the countryside. I ask to what extent customary norms are still practised and whether or not they disadvantage women? I …
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Human ecological analysis of land and forest use by the Hmong people for harmonising with the governmental reforestation program in Vietnam
… a whole are strictly regulated by the system of customary tenure, customary and locally developed rules, and traditional and village institutions rather than the system of formal tenure, rules and institutions. However, the informal system has not been officially recognised by the state yet. The …
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Harnessing Environmental Justice to Protect Against Land-grabbing in Cameroon
… Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure, and the Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments. Using Cameroon as my case study, the study also examined the adequacy of Cameroon’s land tenure rules and environmental impact assessment (EIA) system to protect vulnerable …