Where they have secure tenure of land, not only can they guarantee their livelihoods better but also, for example, they can reduce the cutting of vital tropical forests.
It is also increasingly being recognized that secure tenure of forest resources may contribute to poverty alleviation of the millions of people who depend directly or indirectly on forest resources for their livelihoods and, more generally, to sustainable forest management.
This study also highlights how developing input supply networks, securing tenure among smallholders, and improving access to land for women are important for pro-poor agricultural modernization.
Yet globally indigenous communities only have secure tenure for 10% of their lands.
January 2009 In presentation to Conservative research chief James O'Shaughnessy, Greenhalgh recommends end of secure tenure for Council-housed residents and grester freedom for Councils to manage their own housing stock, including charging market rents.
The prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, at last recognizing the necessity for drastic Irish reforms, disestablished the Protestant Church of Ireland in 1869 and in 1870 introduced the first Irish Land Act, which conceded the principles of secure tenure and compensation for improvements made to property.
The fund has financed (pdf) the construction of 50,000 homes, secured tenure for 20,000 families, and supported projects in 18 countries.
Secure tenure for indigenous people has been recognized as an important precondition for effective conservation and sustainable management of tropical forests.
But Morris questioned the secrecy: "If the object of this land reservation is to provide Tri-Star with a secure tenure for a potentially major development, why not be public about that?
Following the fall of Suharto in 1998 and decentralization in 2001, less restrictive policies have gradually been applied, although secure tenure, in the form of long leases, has only recently become available for villagers in production forests, provided they plant trees (Law 6 of 2007).
The CMB study not only secured tenure for Weiss, but also propelled him to a leading role in the broader scientific community.
