Sentence examples for customary lands from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

Under the Joint Venture Concept, fragmented native customary lands in a village are consolidated into a "land bank".

Under this concept of land development, native communities are persuaded to surrender their customary lands to the Land Custody and Development Authority (LCDA), which acts as custodian of their land rights.

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.

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