Some are homeless, others live in housing that is unaffordable or grossly inadequate, without security of tenure or access to basic services.
Negotiators in Rome have agreed on a proposed set of voluntary global guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure and access rights to land, fisheries and forest resources.
Adesina added that the voluntary guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure and access rights to land, fisheries and forest resources will be ingrained in Nigeria's approach to business, not just with multinationals but also local companies.
Surely you must also recognize that such practices occur in left wing institutes and think tanks as well — not to mention public and private universities where, although cash may not change hands, other items of value such as appointments, tenure and access certainly are conferred upon those who elect to expend time and energy writing op-eds about issues those audiences favor and value.
A new major land law was passed in 2009 (Law 034-2009 porégimerégime foncier rural) promoting local charters to regulate ownership, tenure and access to land.
The results showed that the significant factors affecting choice of adaptation strategies include perceived soil fertility status, perception of land tenure security, access to extension service, and ages of household heads.
The likelihood of adoption of stone bund and chemical fertilizer was observed to be higher with increase the level of education, increase in family size, tenure security, access to extension service and training.
These were, Registrar General's Social Class; housing tenure; household access to a car and the Carstairs indicator of relative area deprivation.
These poor urban settlements typically exhibit one or more defining characteristics including poor structural quality and durability of housing, insufficient living area, a lack of secure tenure, poor access to water, and lack of sanitation facilities (UN Habitat 2006).
For models run separately by SEP, we created an index based on tenure, car access and education, where each increasing level of SEP corresponded to one point, rendering a scale of increasing SEP from 0 to 7. Lastly, we include area of residence (Belfast, Derry, towns, rural areas) and community background (Catholic, Protestant, none/other).
