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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "In recent years, many governments globally
have formally recognized community land and
natural resource tenure, either based on existing
customary practices or more recently established
land governance arrangements.1 These tenure
arrangements have been called by a variety of
names, such as community, customary, communal,
collective, indigenous, ancestral, or native land rights
recognition. In essence, they seek to establish the
rights of a group to obtain joint tenure security
over their community?s land. This approach is not
necessarily limited to use by those communities that
largely manage their lands solely on a communal
or collective basis, because it can encompass
individualized arrangements within it. In fact,
recognizing the boundary of all lands held by a
community, and then allowing the community itself
to define individual rights within that community
land boundary, can be much more cost-effective
(Deininger, 2003). Neither is it an approach
solely used by indigenous, ancestral, or native communities, because any rural community with
established occupation of their lands can potentially
be eligible for such protections. We use the term
?community land and resource tenure” because
many community-based forms of tenure encompass
a range of different land use types, including
permanent agricultural land, shifting or swidden
cultivation areas, forests, grazing areas, and water
bodies.
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance
of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context
of National Food Security, established in 2012, affirm
the importance of recognizing and respecting all
legitimate tenure rights holders and their rights,
whether formally recorded or not (Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
[FAO], 2012). This includes indigenous peoples
(IP) and other communities with customary tenure
systems that exercise self-governance of land,
fisheries, and forests..."
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USAID
Date of Publication:
2016-02-00
Date of entry:
2016-03-08
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