Sentence examples for customary authorities from inspiring English sources

Qualitative interviews with customary authorities and smallholder farmers help establish the mechanism.

KGR is a predominantly closed community with strong customary authorities and scant engagement with government.

The importance of customary authorities, however, is in decline, while levels of influence and engagement with government and political authorities are increasing (Majekodunmi 2017).

Pastoralists, individually and collectively, build 'herding territories' with contours that change with the seasons and according to forage availability and agreements with landowners (or customary authorities).

The most significant institutions that prevail in the selected countries pertain to customary authorities, village land management commissions, and local conventions (Ouedraogo 2007; Djire and Dicko 2007).

It argues that improving the current land tenure policy demands integration of customary land law and customary authorities into the statutory system.

Conveyed with Mr. Schiff's customary authority and grace, "Intermezzi" showed Mr. Widmann's affection for past composers, German Romantics especially.

A "micropolitical ecology" approach revealed that a conservation program grounded in customary authority would be the only acceptable solution, although it would be difficult for villagers to agree on who filled customary roles.

James certainly believed that he was the image of God on Earth, but in those days men believed in the divine right of all sorts of customary authority, including that of man over woman and master over prentice.

Meanwhile, although a desire to reinforce customary authority structures formed an important part of this search for a unifying cultural identity, the quest for a stable, traditional, shared "past" created new, micropolitical instabilities within the community, conditioned by expectations of financial gain and by sources of social status.

Rangeland resources were managed as commons using customary authority systems that determined access and use.