Sentences with phrase «communal lands held»

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The monasteries, for example, emphasized personal poverty, chastity, and obedience, but they did not denounce communal wealth, and some of the monastic religious orders wound up in the pre-Reformation days with incredible wealth in land holdings, much of it confiscated in the battles between the various crowns and the papacy.

Land tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrLand tenure categories characteristically include private holdings (5 — 25 % of national area), communal land (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrland (usually small percentage) and state lands (the majority of the land under government contrland under government control).

The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands hold exclusive native title rights over most of the claimed area - approximately 187,000 sq km in Western Australia, stretching from the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve to the South Australian border.47 The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands also hold non-exclusive rights over an unvested reserve in the claim area including rights to: enter and remain on reserved land; take flora and fauna; take water for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal purposes; take other natural resources such as ochre, stones, soils, wood and resin; and care for and protect sites of significance.

Given the extent of individual property ownership opportunities that already exist on communally held land (outlined in Chapter 2), there may be scope to develop policy and practice and extend the home ownership programme to communal lands.

The World Bank acknowledges customary title as a means of facilitating econ omic development and recently noted that «subject to minimum conditions, [customary title] is generally more effective than premature attempts at establish ing formalised structures».38 It should be noted that agricultural use of land is a key element of the value of land in the World Bank analysis, whereas this is not necessarily the case for remote land held under Indigenous communal ownership.