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Welcome to CLS – Customary Land Solutions
Customary Land Solutions is a specialist transdisciplinary consultancy with the vision of equity for customary landowners. Our mission is to provide advocacy, advisory and capacity building solutions...
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CLS welcomes Hartmut Holzknecht
Dr Hartmut Holzknecht has joined the Customary Land Solutions team. Hartmut is a social anthropologist specialising in natural resource tenure systems and property relations. A citizen of Papua New...
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CLS site has over 1,000 hits in first month
CLS – Global Website hits in first month The Customary Land Solutions website achieved over 1,000 hits in its first month of operation. Thanks for all the positive feedback. Most hits (490) came from...
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Imagine, if you…
Imagine, if you will, what might change in terms of our identity as citizens if Australia were to become a Republic – something that many see as inevitable, albeit a situation which is yet to become a...
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John Sheehan speaking on sea level rise in Utrecht
(Left to right) Professor Thomas Hartmann, Utrecht University; Dr. Ed Dammers, Senior Researcher, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL -Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency); and John Sheehan...
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Ulai Baya represents CLS at ACP Secretariat in Brussels
Ulai Baya represented Customary Land Solutions at the African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) Secretariat Validation Meeting on Private Sector Support in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday 11th November. The ACP...
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, NOT AUSTRALIANS, SHOULD DETERMINE VANUATU’S FUTURE
We agree with much of Joel Simo’s useful news article published in the Sydney Morning Herald last week (available here). However, whilst we know and have respect for Joel Simo, and accept that leases...
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Managing customary land in Fiji – Ulai Baya and Spike Boydell ask ‘is the...
Speaking at the Fiji Institute of Valuation and Estate Management Conference on 30 November 2013, Ulai Baya presented a paper that questioned if the current trust structure is fit for purpose in...
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Ulai Baya talks option pricing with the Fiji Indigenous Business Council
Ulai Baya shares the idea of using option pricing to negotiate compensation for mining activities on customary land to an interested crowd at the the Fiji Indigenous Business Council conference at the...
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How to make the iTLTB better – a users guide
Never a prophet at home, today we took our review of the iTaukei Land Trust Board (iTLTB) to the world stage, presenting to a packed conference venue at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2014...
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Pacific Regional Symposium – Land and Property Rights in the South Pacific –...
CLS members Spike Boydell, Ulai Baya and John Sheehan are co-facilitating the Pacific Regional Symposium – Land and Property Rights in the South Pacific – Honiara 5-7 August 2014 (flyer &...
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Why land is central to Fiji’s future stability
With 100 days to go to the Fiji elections in September, none of the political parties have yet explained in their manifesto’s how they will deal with land (indeed, where are the manifesto’s?). In his...
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Call for Land Policies ahead of Fiji Elections – ABC Pacific Beat
http://customarylandsolutions.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/boydell-on-pacific-beat-on-fiji-land-and-elections-20140624.mp3 Professor Spike Boydell has been interviewed on ABC Radio Australia about the...
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Fiji parties urged to outline land policy ahead of poll – ABC News 24
Following on from his 7th June editorial in the Fiji Times, Professor Spike Boydell has been interviewed by ABC correspondent Sean Dorney for this item on ABC News 24 ‘The World’, which first aired...
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CASLE / UTS: APCCRPR / IAAPLPR Pacific Regional Symposium a huge success
Over 50 delegates participated in the CASLE / UTS: APCCRPR / IAAPLPR Pacific Regional Symposium on Land and Property Rights in the South Pacific in Honiara, Solomon Islands, last week (5-7 August...
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3 new research papers on Customary Land
Three new research papers have just been added to our Research page. ‘Using the Plurality of Registers to Investigate Conflict over Customary Land‘ attempts to articulate the disconnected worldview...
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Land, Indigenous People and Conflict
Spike Boydell is General Editor of the Routledge Complex Real Property Rights book series. The first book launced in the series is Land, Indigenous People and Conflict edited by Alan Tidwell and Barry...
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Ulai meets Pope Francis to talk about Indigenous Land Rights
Ulai Baya (3rd to Pope Francis’ right) Last week Ulai was in Rome to participate in the Third Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples´ Forum at IFAD. The International Fund for Agricultural...
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15 years on, Siwatibau’s wisdom on land tenure in his SPLTC Symposium welcome...
Transforming Land Conflict – FAO/USP/RICS Foundation South Pacific Land Conflict Symposium Welcome Address by the late Savenaca Siwatibau, Vice Chancellor, University of the South Pacific – 10 April...
View ArticleThe Timber Creek Case – Property Rights Insights – Boydell & Sheehan 20 March...
In this launch episode of Property Rights ‘Insights’ I take the opportunity to discuss the High Court of Australia Decision of 13 March 2019 in what is known as the ‘Timber Creek Case’ with my...
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