A new era of land struggle on the horizon –holding governments to their commitments to collective tenure
The back has been broken on legal denial of community property. This is the conclusion of a study of land laws in 100 countries.
Factually, most administrations now acknowledge community lands as a viable unit of property and provide mechanisms through which this essentially social form may be formally mapped and registered. And I mean community property, with comparable legal protections as granted private and corporate property.