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land tenure | Business English

land tenure
noun[ U ]
 PROPERTYukus
the laws and arrangements relating to owning land, especially land that is used for farming:
Productivity is affected by the fragmented pattern of land tenure, with millions of family farms on small plots, cultivating mainly for subsistence.

Examples of land tenure

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Many women did not have access to land through the landtenure system.
As we have shown, the traditional landtenure system has numerous problems.
Her own career star ted with concerns for agriculture and landtenure and turned to revolution and revolutionary movements.
To address both problems, we grouped landtenure into only two groups: customary and non-customary tenure.
Most initiatives (and the title of the volume) focus on wildlife, but landtenure is a recurrent theme in the book as well.
This finding is robust to the choice of estimation method, and is supported by a joint test of the significance of the landtenure dummies.
In the last simulation, a full landtenure privatization policy experiment is implemented, but under present informational structures; the policy strongly advocated presently by policymakers.
It wins popularity by advocating reforms in landtenure, private ownership and entitlement to land, which is still state owned.
Consequently, there is no need, from their point of view, to ' reform ' existing landtenure practices.
Calls for landtenure reform towards private property in land resurfaced in the 1980s and have been gathering momentum since.
They felt that insecure landtenure and political cronyism were creating financial and even political problems.
Then it is straightforward to show that landtenure institutions affect tree planting through their effects on land rights.
Such information will better inform policymakers concerned with landtenure, resource management, and conflicts in these regions.
In 1747, the system of landtenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.
These results indicate that the customary landtenure system has sufficiently strong built-in investment incentives.
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