An investigation into forest ownership and customary land ... - Fern

Summary
Drafting the community rights law with a holistic reform vision in
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A complete overhaul of land law will be needed sooner rather than later - a task
already beginning under the guidance of the Governance Reform Commission.
This will necessarily make the status of customary land interests a focus of rural
reforms. In the short term, the proposed community rights law will be able to lead
the way and should be structured to do so. Its amending effects should extend
well beyond the new forestry law into standing legislation affecting Hinterland
local government and particularly the existing Public Lands Law and Property
Law. Precise suggestions for content and overall strategy are made in the full
report.
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photo Iola Leal Riesco