Sentence examples for formal land from inspiring English sources

Encouraged by a booming real estate market, many forestry companies have set up formal land programs to trim back their holdings.

The Achuar's ancestral lands cover about two-thirds of oil Block 64, though most communities lack formal land titles, said Petsein.

"In cases where farmers have no formal land rights, such as in Africa, governments may expel farmers from their land," commented Anton Van Rompaey, a geographer from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, who was not part of the study but has has done research on urban spread and its agricultural impacts in China.

That debate has taken on new urgency with a long-contested law that went into effect this year granting formal land rights to those who have lived in the forest since 2005, including but not limited to the indigenous people known as tribals.

These are then compared with the formal land adjudication process in Kenya.

The land quality and fertility has to be sufficient to be hypothecated and a formal land property title is necessary.

The nomination has coincided with my getting formal landed immigrant status and it has been the best imaginable immigration party for me.

In this study, we are interested in local conventions (LOCONV) and formal village land management commissions (COFO/CVGT).

The paper describes the changes in formal and informal land markets over the last 50 years and the changing responses by government agencies to housing (and land for housing) issues.

For example some indigenous forest peoples of southern Cameroon (so-called 'pygmies') have gained a degree of formal control to land they have occupied for centuries through a project run by MappingforRights through which they use smartphones to map their own boundaries.

However, corridors were rarely viewed as a formal feature of land use planning nor did they receive protection at the CR level.