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Securing customary rights is key to sustainable community forestry

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2019
Central African Republic
Forest Tenure
sustainable development
customary land rights
customary tenure
tenure security
local communities
The laws in the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic provide limited protection to indigenous peoples and local communities regarding access to land and forest resources. Often, logging concessions overlap their territories, restricting access to lands and resources. However, the development of community forests is gaining momentum in the region. These can help secure customary tenure, sustainably manage resources and improve livelihoods for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs).
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Myanmar

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2019
Myanmar, Thailand
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land policies
indigenous peoples' lands
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
customary tenure
Indigenous Peoples
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to recognizing and protecting customary tenure in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Reports & Research
April, 2019
Laos
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
VGGT
land governance
land rights
community land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to the recognition of customary tenure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Customary tenure is understood to be the local rules, institutions and practices governing land, fisheries and forests that have, over time and use, gained social legitimacy and become embedded in the fabric of a society.
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Cambodia

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2019
Cambodia
VGGT
land policies
natural resources management
indigenous peoples' land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
statutory tenure
tenure security
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to recognizing customary tenure in Cambodia.
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Challenges and opportunities of recognizing and protecting customary tenure systems in Viet Nam

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2019
Vietnam
VGGT
land policies
customary law
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
land tenure systems
customary tenure
indigenous people's tenure
Indigenous Peoples
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and opportunities related to recognizing customary tenure in Viet Nam.
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The Voluntary Guidelines: Securing our rights - Senegal

Reports & Research
January, 2020
Africa, Senegal
land governance
land policies
land tenure
land tenure systems
customary tenure
The guide will serve as documentation of the lessons learnt from the experiences of making use of the VGGT and in Senegal. As stakeholders from countries, such as Guinea, Mali and Mauritania seek inspiration from Senegal to improve governance of tenure in their own country context, this document will be an important source of inspiration. The document will also be a reference for different Donors and Partners interested in tenure governance in Senegal.
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The Influences of Gendered Customary Land Tenure System on Food Security in Nandom District, Ghana

Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Ghana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
land tenure
customary tenure
households
women
Food insecurity has been a major global development concern. Hence, SDG Two seeks to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. The situation is severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where customary practices deprive women of land ownership and limit their access rights. This paper explores the influences of a gendered land tenure system on food security in Nandom District, adapting conditional assessment modules defined by USDA and FAO. With a list of households categorized under headship, 30 respondents were proportionally selected from each of the four study communities.
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The ‘new’ African customary land tenure. Characteristic, features and policy implications of a new paradigm

Land Use Policy Volume 81

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2019
Central African Republic
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
customary tenure
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
land use
property rights
research
Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure. Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the way such landl is governed. Driven in part by adaptations to changing context but also accelerated by neo-liberal reforms, this shift has created a ‘new’ customary tenure in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews some of the evidence and analyses the ways in which this neo-liberalisation of customary tenure has been transforming relations of production and how land is governed in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Case 2.1 – Special Agricultural Business Lease (SABL)

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Papua New Guinea
Land & Corruption
land administration
land acquisitions
land allocation
land access
land dispute
leases
land ownership
customary tenure
On July 21, 2011 the then Acting Prime Minister Sam Abal announced the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate 77 land leases which were issued under the Somare government’s Special Agriculture & Business Leases (SABL). The inquiry, which was later extended by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill in October 2011 for a further five months, discovered that over 90 percent of the leases totalling over 5 million hectares were illegally obtained from traditional landowners (Zealand, 2015).
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Informal Land Delivery and Tenure Security Institutions in Benin City, Nigeria

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2020
Nigeria
land information systems
urban land
land delivery
land rights
customary tenure
The informal sector in urban land supply has continued to meet the increasing demand for urban land owing to the deficiencies of the formal sector in Nigeria. But tenure security and equity in land supply have become the major issues that have evoked much concern in the sector. This article seeks to understand the provisions of tenure rights through customary institutions not as the binary opposite of the formal land titling but as a part of the continuum that includes the formal system in Benin City.