Sentence examples for customary land from inspiring English sources

Like the other houses in Mtandire, it was built on "customary" land.

Malawi's smallholder farmers work tiny plots they hold through customary land tenure.

After dinner, colleagues from several local conservation organizations, customary land representatives and other partners all gathered to discuss the expedition.

The European colonists, for the most part, had preferred to leave customary land arrangements alone, except in areas where they themselves wanted to live or establish plantations.

She said that while the laws recognized indigenous people's "customary" land rights, indigenous people complain that the laws do not provide sufficient protection and are not properly implemented.

This lack of recognition means that project developers have not been required to carefully study and respect customary land uses in the affected areas.

With statutory efforts to establish collective rights to customary lands yet to be officially sanctioned, rural communities remain vulnerable to the frequent land grabs made by palm oil producers and other forest users.

Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.

The epicentre was Papunya, 240 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs, which was established by the government to house Aborigines displaced from customary lands.

This case study from New Caledonia explores the motivations of local people in initiating co-managed conservation projects on customary lands.

They provided timber from their customary lands to be used for construction, mainly housing, at the new site to help defray costs (Government Climate Change Division interviewee, personal communication, 30 October 2014, Suva, Fiji).