Sentence examples for of secure land from inspiring English sources
The lack of secure land tenure has facilitated an "astonishing buying spree across Africa", said the RRI director of global programmes, Jeffrey Hatcher.
However, much change could not take place in the absence of secure land rights, supportive trade policies, and the required support services and facilities, including infrastructure.
"It refocuses us on to the question, who do forests belong to?" said Joseph Zacune, a climate and energy coordinator at FOE. "In the absence of secure land rights indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities have no guarantees that they'll benefit from Redd.
In such cases the lack of secure land tenure and access to resources may pose a constraint to sustainable agricultural development.
Otherwise the absence of secure land ownership causes some shortcomings such as lack of full participation of the local communities in afforestation programmes.
The lack of secure land and alternative economic activities will continue to present formidable obstacles to the management and conservation of forest resources, be they in the primary or secondary forests.
With little progress, increasing numbers of people and communities are simply giving up hope of securing land on high ground.
Often, an absence of authoritative land registration and titles makes it easy for foreign investors, with the connivance of host governments, to secure land that local communities have long depended upon, even if they cannot demonstrate formal ownership.
They are given support from the government and international agri-business in the form of loans, secure land rights and access to the latest agro- chemicals and GMO seeds.
Examples from Kenya and Eastern Africa (Aboud et al. 2012; Flintan 2012) illustrate some of the ways forward: secure land rights, investment in local institutions, investment in ecotourism and investment in harvesting natural products such as henna or gum arabic.
(Earlier, in 2004, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had determined that, in opening this land for logging, the Belizean government had violated the rights of the Maya in the southern part of the country by denying them secure land tenure).
