Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform

This paper reports on the authors’ ongoing research with agricultural extension services, customary landowners and migrant farmers to develop a template for a Land Usage Agreement (LUA) that seeks to reconcile customary landowners’ and migrants’ differing interpretations of the moral basis of land r...

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Main Authors:	Koczberski, Gina, Curry, George, Anjen, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2012
Subjects:	migration customary land tenure relational economies social embeddedness land rights land reform rural change oil palm
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41998

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spelling	curtin-20.500.11937-419982017-09-13T15:59:40Z Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Anjen, J. migration customary land tenure relational economies social embeddedness land rights land reform rural change oil palm This paper reports on the authors’ ongoing research with agricultural extension services, customary landowners and migrant farmers to develop a template for a Land Usage Agreement (LUA) that seeks to reconcile customary landowners’ and migrants’ differing interpretations of the moral basis of land rights. The LUA shows a way forward for land reform that builds on customary tenure while strengthening the temporary use rights of migrants to enable them to generate viable and relatively secure livelihoods. The paper concludes that land tenure reform should draw on what is already happening on the ground, rather than impose external models that do not accord with local cultural mores about the inalienability of customary land and its enduring social and cultural significance for customary landowning groups. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41998 10.1080/00049182.2012.682295 Routledge fulltext
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topic	migration customary land tenure relational economies social embeddedness land rights land reform rural change oil palm
spellingShingle	migration customary land tenure relational economies social embeddedness land rights land reform rural change oil palm Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Anjen, J. Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
description	This paper reports on the authors’ ongoing research with agricultural extension services, customary landowners and migrant farmers to develop a template for a Land Usage Agreement (LUA) that seeks to reconcile customary landowners’ and migrants’ differing interpretations of the moral basis of land rights. The LUA shows a way forward for land reform that builds on customary tenure while strengthening the temporary use rights of migrants to enable them to generate viable and relatively secure livelihoods. The paper concludes that land tenure reform should draw on what is already happening on the ground, rather than impose external models that do not accord with local cultural mores about the inalienability of customary land and its enduring social and cultural significance for customary landowning groups.
format	Journal Article
author	Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Anjen, J.
author_facet	Koczberski, Gina Curry, George Anjen, J.
author_sort	Koczberski, Gina
title	Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
title_short	Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
title_full	Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
title_fullStr	Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
title_full_unstemmed	Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform
title_sort	changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of papua new guinea: the challenge for land reform
publisher	Routledge
publishDate	2012
url	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41998
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Changing land tenure and informal land markets in the oil palm frontier regions of Papua New Guinea: The challenge for land reform

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