Essays about: "Customary lands"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Customary lands.

1. 1. Acquisition of nationality – A right for stateless children in Europe?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Ebba Torgersson; [2023]
   Keywords : Public international law; statelessness; children; nationality; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : I Europa påverkas cirka 600 000 personer, inklusive barn, av statslöshet. Även om UNHCR:s #IBelong-kampanj har uppmärksammat frågan och satt ett tydligt mål att statslösheten ska upphöra till 2024, råder det fortfarande tvivelaktigheter kring vilken stat som är ansvarig för att bevilja statslösa barn medborgarskap. READ MORE

3. 2. From wheat to lawns : urban expansion to agricultural lands in Finland from 2000 to 2018 and its implications to food security

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Antti Olof Ilari Säkkinen; [2023]
   Keywords : agriculture; food security; GIS; Sustainable Development; urban expansion;

   Abstract : This thesis evaluates the extent of urban expansion on agricultural lands in Finland, its effects on the national agricultural output and the implications to national food security and sheds some light to the reasons of why agricultural land is converted to urban land in Finland. This complex issue was approached through mixed research methods. READ MORE

4. 3. Home States' Duty to Protect Human Rights - To what extent is Sweden requiring Swedish corporations to comply with human rights extraterritorially?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Gisela Jönsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Public International Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : It has been argued that multinational corporations benefit from impunity when it comes to human rights violations due to inadequate corporate regulation in host states as well on the international level. Thus, there are three purposes of this thesis: first to examine to what extent states’ duty to protect human rights can be utilised to hold corporations accountable for human rights violations in their global activities. READ MORE

5. 4. Are Indigenous Farmers’ Investments Under Siege? Implications of farmer-herder conflicts and threats to customary land tenure on indigenous farmers’ agricultural investment decisions in Agogo, Ghana.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Selorm Kugbega; [2018]
   Keywords : Agogo; Land tenure in security; Usufructs; Pastoralists; Farmer-herder conflict; Investment; Customary land; Fulani herders; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Owing to structural factors of climate change and population growth, the past decade has witnessed high interest among migrant and settler pastoralist groups in the vegetal-rich customary lands of the Agogo Traditional Area. This has resulted in lease grants of large land areas to pastoralists by traditional authorities and usufruct families, for reasons of ensuring optimum use and gaining the highest returns from lands. READ MORE

6. 5. Governing indigenous territories in the Peruvian Amazon : placing people or forest first?

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Josefin Egerlid; [2015]
   Keywords : communities; conservation; indigenous; Kechwa-Lamista; native; territory; title;

   Abstract : The current competition for land in the Peruvian Amazon presents a challenge to many indige-nous communities which do not have legal ownership over their customary lands. In response to this challenge, several actions have been taken by indigenous groups to gain possession over forest areas which they consider as part of their ancestral territories. READ MORE