Sentence examples for weak land from inspiring English sources
Weak land tenure systems and land policy rights for women and smallholder farmers are a major challenge across Africa, which policy reforms like Mozambique's seek to address.
Weak land titles and hazy lines between customary and state ownership can result in local peasants being booted off their land and becoming impoverished, they say.
It required five months to seat a new government after the April 2008 food riots, and United Nations officials say development is stymied by a corrupt judicial system, weak land tenure laws and wildly inefficient ports.
The report also focused on the vulnerability of indigenous people, saying they suffer weak land rights and geographic isolation, making them particularly exposed to land grabbing for natural resource exploitation.
In a report published alongside the database, which analysed 1,217 agricultural deals covering 83.2m hectares of land, the researchers said the data confirms suspicions that wealthy food-importing countries have been targeting farmland in poorer countries with high rates of hunger and weak land governance.
This decoupling, along with weak land tenure security due to a complex and volatile policy landscape, suppresses local incentives for grassland conservation.
Such processes include permafrost thaw; the loss of methane hydrates from the ocean floor; weaker land and ocean carbon sinks; the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the reduction of Antarctic sea ice and polar ice sheets.
"When it has compromised in the past, mostly in disputes on its land border, it was a relatively weak state.
Tidal streams are generally weak, although landing conditions are tricky when there is wind or swell from the south.
Furthermore, this study supports the argument of previous studies that with focus on weekday trip frequency, empirical studies may find a relatively weak effect of land use compared to the sociodemographic effect; this, unfortunately, would discourage transportation planners from considering land use interventions that may have other benefits.
The target was either strongly or weakly related to the cue word (e.g., strong: salt pepper, machine, land; weak: salt grain, radio, adult).
