Cameroon’s land laws combine customary and statutory rules, requiring registration for legal ownership.
#Cameroon #landlaws #PropertyOwnership #landtenure #realestateagent
Read blog for more information- https://bboyo.com/boyo-realestate/blogs/explained-land-tenure-and-property-ownership-laws-in-cameroon
When the 'Australians dream of home ownership' becomes a nightmare for Australian biodiversity.
Put new mass housing on completely degraded land with no biodiversity values or in the middle of a last biodiversity hotspot? South-east Queensland sprawl, Ipswich, Woogaroo Forest, Lot 9999
There are "plans to sculpt and flatten this land to make way for about 1,800 houses for south-east Queensland’s booming population."
“There is plenty of completely degraded land with no biodiversity values at all to put those houses on...here’s degraded agricultural land, there’s abandoned land, there’s abandoned mines … south-east Queensland is 6m hectares."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/25/woogaroo-forest-ipswich-queensland-housing-development-wildlife-ntwnfb
#biodiversity #degradation #sprawl #housing #EndangeredHabitats #WoogarooForest #LandTenure #wildlife #koalas #birds #extinction #Australia #SEQ
Africa: Supporting Land Tenure Security and Integrated Forest Management in Benin: [World Bank] Washington -- The World Bank Board of Directors today approved two International Development Association (IDA) financings totaling $180.7 million to help Benin improve land tenure security and strengthen the integrated management of classified forests. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKVqLp #Africa #LandTenure #ForestManagement #Benin #WorldBank
Who owns Australia?
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2021/may/17/who-owns-australia
#FirstNationsPeoples #FirstNations #Country #ownership #control #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #LandTenure #LandUse #corporations
Just posted a new symposium essay - Land Reform in the Fifth World - that draws on case studies of active Indigenous-led land reforms happening now across Canada and the Navajo Nation. Property systems are already pluralistic and dynamic, but property scholars tend to focus on only a narrow swath of cases, experiences, and legal sources. This essay addresses that deficit:
"Reallocating Land: From Market to Commons"
Online: April 20, 2023 at 2 PM EST "...“Schumacher Conversations: ...” ...
... April’s panelists are those already pioneering a new #LandEthic, and transforming #LandTenure in the present. Each participant represents a particular approach to land #commoning — offering alternatives to the supremacy of universal private property with models more accountable to community needs and ecological health.
https://www.agrariantrust.org/events/reallocating-land-from-market-to-commons/. #AgrarianTrust #Commons
“There are over 30 countries where women don’t have the same rights to #landownership and face severe customary and normative constraints"
Marlene Elias, @CGIAR and @BiovIntCIAT_eng, shared hopes and expectations for the GBF framework regarding the formalization of #landtenure
#COP15
https://twitter.com/IISD_ENB/status/1603115819126464520?t=qUnY3DlVmj156gQZ88ZXzw&s=19
https://archive.org/details/landed-obligation
Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda by Holly Elisabeth Hanson
Topics
#EastAfrica, #Buganda, #Africanhistory, #Africa, #Baganda, #BugandaKingdom, #KingdomofBuganda, #Mailo, #landtenure, #monarchies, #monarchy, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #Uganda, #Kabaka, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #slaveraids, #slaveraiding, #arabslavetrade, #war, #land, #socialhierarchy, #socialhierarchies
Series: Social History of Africa
Publisher: Heinemann (Reed Elsevier)
ISBNs: 0325070377 (cloth), 0325070369 (paper)
ISSN: 1099-8098
