Sentences with phrase «on land tenure»

However as discussed in Chapter 3, the Principles focus only on land tenure issues and fail to address the substantive social and economic obstacles to home ownership for Indigenous communities.

In recognition of the limited role of the NIC, the Chair of the Council, Dr Gordon, has stated the need for effective consultation processes to minimise misunderstandings regarding land tenure issues and to receive broad ranging feedback.41 To date, such broad ranging consultation has not been conducted by the Commonwealth Government or the NIC on the land tenure principles.

Yu Gao, the China director for Landesa, a group working on land tenure issues, focused on the lack of what he called «social infrastructure» in China — mechanisms to protect the rights of those on the move in the country's great urban migration.

Not exact matches

I've been saying for six or seven years now (four of those spent adnitcnujg post-degree) that I could and should be looking for work outside of academia, but only after five rollercoaster years on the academic market and coming * this close * to landing a tenure - track position can I happily and healthily say I quit.

An economy that rested on the sturdy backs of Jeffersonian yeomen synced with the Hebraic system of land tenure.

The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated's Pete Thamel and Thayer Evans, Brady Hoke discussed his hopes to land a «power 5» job next year, what he meant when he said Jim Harbaugh should not have punted on 4th and 2, and things he could have done better during his tenure in Ann Arbor.

This comes after some critics said she favored developers during her tenure on the land use committee, something Katz disputes.

The chance to attain full scientific recognition without having to land a faculty job first could shrink the chasm now separating postdocs from researchers on the tenure track.

Luckily for greens, the back - and - forth on the issue over the past eight years has meant that only seven miles of new roads — yielding access to just 500 acres of timber — have been cut on lands slated for protection under the Roadless Rule during Bush's tenure.

Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

On completion of their postdoctoral studies, 62 percent of former postdocs and 55 percent of current ones hoped to land a tenure - track academic position.

The postdoc who wanted to secure a position on the ivory tower — but who found that tenure - track jobs are very difficult to land after 7 years in postdoc positions.

In 2009 Education Next asked a representative sample of Floridians their opinion about teacher tenure and merit pay, the very issues that have just landed on Florida Governor Charlie Crist» s desk.

The poll results that Education Next released Tuesday carry mildly glum news for just about every education reformer in the land, as public support has diminished at least a bit for most initiatives on their agendas: merit pay, charter schools, vouchers, and tax credits, Common Core, and even ending teacher tenure.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

When you rely on Land Rover Palm Beach to browse for a brand - new luxury Land Rover or pre-owned model, to secure competitive financing, or to receive expert automotive service, you can always expect our tenured sales staff and automotive technicians to lend a warm and welcoming hand.

Relevant local and national authorities, civil society organisations, farmer groups and youth groups improved their coordination and enhanced their capacity to identify and develop solutions to issues of land tenure and agriculture - related job creation in the context of the multi-stakeholder forum on urban agriculture and food security.

This analytical report aims to raise awareness of key government and humanitarian actors on the importance of addressing land tenure issues in natural disasters.

Problems can arise if a) the plan sets poor definitions about whether the program should focus just on actions to be taken or the end result of those actions, b) many perceive the initiative as commoditization of nature and its intangible values, c) the action is inefficient to reduce poverty, d) difficulties emerge in building trust between various stakeholders involved in agreements, and e) there are eventual gender or land tenure issues.

In many Latin American frontier zones, if there is native forest on the land, it is up for grabs, as there is no legal tenure of the land.

Some data sets displayed on Global Forest Watch include land and resource rights governed by customary tenure systems but that are not recognized by national laws.

To ensure they are effective, REDD schemes need to prioritise securing indigenous land tenure, clamp down on industrial offenders of illegal logging, and agree real reductions in deforestation — with penalties for failure that bite.

At an event on October 7, WRI will launch a new report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, which finds for the first time that relatively modest investments in secure land tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmenTenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, which finds for the first time that relatively modest investments in secure land tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentaLand Rights, which finds for the first time that relatively modest investments in secure land tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentaland tenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentenure for Indigenous Peoples can generate billions of dollars in returns — economically and environmentally.

«There would be a lot of focus on the evaluation of the reserve, the land tenure, the licences, the royalties and the statuses of the joint ventures, permitting, environmental compliance and then the assessment of all the liabilities, whether they're accrued or contingent,» says Philippe Tardif, a business law partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

But the essence of this dispute, which began in 1999, was that Half Moon Lake Resort wanted to «sell» 216 individual campsites on an unsubdivided parcel of land — or come as close as the law allowed to selling each campsite without subdividing the land, thereby maximizing the value of each campsite and the security of tenure for each campsite «owner.»

Recent advisory work includes advising on the strength of a claim to a right of way by prescription of residential land; advising on the scope of a restrictive covenant contained in a transfer of freehold land; advising a prospective vendor on an aborted conveyance of land; advising on security of tenure under the Rent Act 1977; advising in respect of a nuisance claim concerning an interference with a right of way; advising a commercial landlord in respect of a tenant's breach of user covenant; and advising in a claim for rectification of the title to the property in respect of a void transfer.

While in Ontario and the Prairie provinces, the development of a system of land tenure was firmly founded on Indigenous treaties, elsewhere in the country (i.e., most of British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Québec and the Maritimes), non-Indigenous settlement, for the most part, proceeded without purchase of Aboriginal title.

National Indigenous council release draft working document on Possible Indigenous Land Tenure Principles

Shortly after, the first communiqué was released by the National Indigenous Council (NIC), presenting a draft set of «Indigenous Land Tenure Principles» (NIC Principles) for discussion at the annual Native Title Conference on 3 June 2005.11

Consistent with Hughes» thinking and that of the Centre for Independent Studies, government policy was increasingly focused, for example, on limiting the application of communal land tenure and abolishing many Community Development Employment projects.

This is will be particularly important in areas where, for example, tenure reform will be required to achieve key opportunities from carbon markets on Indigenous lands.

However, the NIC Principles focus only on the tenure arrangements for leasing land and provide no guidance as to how the social framework of Indigenous communities can be improved.

This disparity in land tenure will have a number of flow - on implications.

While the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposes that individuals and companies will be able to acquire reduction permits, many Indigenous rights and interests (including on the Indigenous estate) are still limited by land tenure such as native title and national parks.

Most Indigenous leaders, however, criticised the debate's focus on the communal and inalienable tenure of Indigenous land for obscuring the real factors in Indigenous poverty in remote areas such as illiteracy, poor health, inadequate housing and basic infrastructure like sewerage, roads and communications as well for elevating the economic value of the land at the expense of its spiritual and political importance to Indigenous people.

The approach of providing for differing procedural rights according to what non-Indigenous tenures exist (ed) over claimed lands appears to be based on the assumption that a past grant had a particular effect of extinguishing native title.

That new legal principle accepted that the common law of Australia would give recognition to native title without altering that title or imposing on it all of the characteristics of other interests in land derived from the different... law of land tenures inherited by Australian law from English law upon settlement.

They are a most direct expression of the Australian Government's focus on gaining control over Aboriginal land, rather than reforming tenure to assist Aboriginal people to better use their land.

«The meeting will focus on a set of draft Indigenous land tenure principles that have been formulated by NIC members as a starting point for obtaining the views of interested stakeholders.

This Chapter reviews tenure reform programs across Australia and reveals that the focus of reforms has been on enabling governments to obtain secure tenure over Indigenous land.

Significantly, the session also included the presentation of a draft guide on the principles in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the International Labour Organisation Convention No 169 [188] and the International Labour Convention No 107 [189] that relate to indigenous land tenure and management arrangements.

Within this context of non-Indigenous land tenure and multi-layered interests in land, the Native Title Act places the onus on us to prove a continuing relationship with our country rather than requiring government (or other groups that assert interests in the claimed area) to disprove the native title claim.

The tenure requirements for the new housing areas are also still being finalised, and will in part rely on the reforms to Aboriginal Lands Trust housing, which are described above.

I have previously expressed my concern with arguments that tenure reform is the key to removing impediments to economic development in communities on Indigenous land.

Members of the National Indigenous Council (NIC) will meet with Land Councils / Native Title Representative Bodies (3 June 3005) to advance their discussions on the issues surrounding Indigenous land tenLand Councils / Native Title Representative Bodies (3 June 3005) to advance their discussions on the issues surrounding Indigenous land tenland tenure.

Two of these agreements refer to Indigenous land tenure — the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Service Delivery (the Remote Service Delivery Agreement)[14] and the Remote Indigenous Housing Agreement.

One of the advantages of moving to put secure tenure arrangements in place on land council land is that home ownership will become an option for those tenants who wish to move in that direction.

[the] progressive resolution of land tenure on remote community - titled land in order to secure government and commercial investment, economic development opportunities and home ownership possibilities in economically sustainable communities.

This includes making funding for communities conditional on the reform of land tenure arrangements that obstruct new housing investment.