Sökning: "Communal tenure"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Communal tenure.

1. 1. Equality before custom? - A study of property rights of previously disadvantaged women under land reform and communal tenure in post-apartheid South Africa

   Författare :Annika Rudman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender equality; Customary law; Land reform; Communal tenure; South Africa; Traditional leadership; Africa; Feminism Restitution of land rights; Women’s property rights; Poverty reduction and development;

   Sammanfattning : Based on legal primary and secondary sources as well as text based and secondary data, Equality before custom? explores the relationship between statutory law and customary law in relation to previously disadvantaged women’s access to land through land reform, in post-apartheid South Africa. With the point of departure in this new constitutional order, the position of official customary law and living custom in land reform and communal land tenure is examined. LÄS MER

3. 2. Changing Customary Land Tenure Regimes in Tanzania : The case of women's land rights in matrilineal and patrilineal communities

   Författare :Jenesta Aikaeli Elisa Urassa; Jenny Paulsson; John Lupala; Peter Ekbäck; Faustin Maganga; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :customary land tenure; property rights; legislations; titling; women; sedvanerätt till mark; markrättigheter; lagstiftning; äganderätt; kvinnor; Fastigheter och byggande; Real Estate and Construction Management;

   Sammanfattning : Customary land tenure is a dominant system in agrarian societies and in Africa generally,which is evolving from communal to individual regimes in response to socio-economicissues. Various studies have paid attention to economic incentives of shifting communaltenure into private property, while ignoring social implication of such changes. LÄS MER

4. 3. From Subsistence to Commercial Producers : Processes of State-led Agrarian Change, Land Tenure Dynamics and Social Differentiation among Smallholders in Ghana

   Författare :Selorm Kugbega; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Smallholder; Commercialization; Land tenure; Social differentiation; Chiefs; Gender; Migrants; Ghana;

   Sammanfattning : Agricultural commercialization is concerned with improving market-oriented production in expectation of maximizing profit. While previous state policies in Ghana favoured commercialization by medium and large scale cultivators, there exists a new national commitment dubbed the Planting for Food and Jobs Policy that seeks to leverage on the cumulative productive potential of small farmers for sustained economic growth. LÄS MER

5. 4. Land Reform, Trust and Natural Resource Management in Africa

   Författare :Precious Zikhali; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Africa; Agricultural productivity; Bioeconomic model; Dynamic analysis; Land reform; Ethnicity; Ethnic nepotism; Investments; Mopane worm; Restrictive harvest period policy; Tenure security; Trust; Zimbabwe.;

   Sammanfattning : Four self-contained papers constitute this thesis. Paper I investigates what impact Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme, launched in 2000 as part of an ongoing land reform and resettlement programme aimed at addressing a racially skewed land distribution, has had on its beneficiaries’ perceptions of land tenure security and subsequent decisions to invest in soil conservation. LÄS MER

7. 5. Shell Age Economics : Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of Tonga, Polynesia

   Författare :Thomas Malm; Humanekologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; chieftainship; cosmology; demography; marine tenure systems; tragedy of the commons ; seaweeds; marine invertebrates; gender roles; indigenous knowledge; maritime anthropology; Tongans; Tonga; Oceania; Polynesia; totemism; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : This monograph analyses marine gathering in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga from ecological, social and cognitive perspectives. The overarching issues explored are (1) the significance of marine gathering in the past and present, (2) how seaweeds and marine invertebrates have been perceived, classified, named and used, (3) how they have been implicated in social relations, and (4) how the integration of the islands into the modern world system has affected the marine environment and the exploitation of its resources. LÄS MER