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Indigenous Property Rights: Custom And Commerce At The Interface- A Case Study Of The Ahi People's Land, Morobe Province, Png, Lynne Armitage

Lynne Armitage

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Land resource management in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been experiencing substantial pressure over the last few years in response to economic and social development and change. Customary tenure is the dominant form of tenure yet it has received very little attention as a resource which underpins such development. Over recent years, the economy has sought to manage the impacts of external influences, such as globalisation and a decline in commodity prices, whilst beset by many internal political upheavals.

Within the context of such structural readjustment, this paper examines the interrelationship between customary and alienated tenure systems, their background, …