New Study: Clear Land Rights in Developing World Could Avoid Costly Disputes

Oct 3, 2017 | Astrid Zweynert, Christian Science Monitor
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More than half of land rights conflicts in the developing world have not been resolved, pitting companies, governments, and businesses against indigenous communities, researchers said on Tuesday. The most common cause of these often violent and sometimes deadly disputes is the displacement of indigenous and local people from land they have lived on for generations but for which they do not hold legal title.