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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… improve tenure governance through three inter-related and mutually-dependent objectives: (1) achieving food security … may be strengthened to reduce risk in the medium term, but addressing fundamental development needs may be … in times of need, access by other clans or factions is agreed through negotiation (Niamir-Fuller, 1999). Mechanisms …
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Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation

… individual interests; The factors that impact a law's long-term, effective and equitable implementation. The UN … land rights in Africa being clearly delimited and mutually exclusive, the customary and the statutory are … attempt to set out a basic sketch of some of the commonly-agreed upon elements of contemporary customary law. 24 …
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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments

… allocation  of  long‐term  rights  to  natural  resources  and may  take  a  long  … s of the priority areas that all relevant stakeholders have agreed upon. This guide can  …  Human rights include a wide range of indivisible and mutually reinforcing civil, cultural,  …
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Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers

… 3.2 and 12.12). A number of companies have voluntarily agreed to adhere to the Guidelines both in their own … Guidelines are part of a growing body of interrelated and mutually supportive international guidance on matters … cost-effective and practical to implement over the long term. 5.1 “States should provide and maintain policy, legal …
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Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.

… nder the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997, the term "environment" is defined to mean air, water, land and … Union Administration, on such terms and conditions as may mutually be agreed upon: Provided that responsibility for discharge of …
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Land and water - the rights interface

… that the expression "land tenure" is originally a legal term that means the right to hold land rather than the simple … of holding it.25 The word "tenure" derives from the Latin term for "holding" or possession and its use in this context …
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