Customary Land

New Report Warns of an Unprecedented Wave of Land Privatization

On 15 Jul, 2020 By ACTNOW

In a Post-COVID World Govt Must Drop Plans For Bankable Customary Land

On 02 Jul, 2020 By ACTNOW

Date: 2 July 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, ACT NOW is urging the PNG government to drop its plans to put customary land into the hands of commercial banks.

The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated once again that customary land is a vital and irreplaceable resource for our families and communities.

In a Post-COVID World Govt. Must Drop Plans For Bankable Customary Land

On 02 Jul, 2020 By ACTNOW

With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, the PNG government is being urged to drop its plans to put customary land into the hands of commercial banks.

“The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated once again that customary land is a vital and irreplaceable resource for our families and communities”, says Campaign Manger, Eddie Tanago.

"It should be inconceivable that the government would put customary land at risk by allowing commercial banks to hold the title as security for financial loans".

Kastomari Len Registresen

COVID-19 Reinforces the Value of Customary Land in PNG

On 27 Mar, 2020 By ACTNOW

Market prices in Port Moresby have shot up in recent days, K50 for a medium sized water-melon and K1 for an unripe lemon

Eddie Tanago - 27 March 2020

What are the lessons? Seeing the COVID-19 crisis through a PNG lens

On 24 Mar, 2020 By ACTNOW

The COVID-19 pandemic further emphasises the message that our customary land is our social safety net, our security, our life, our sustenance and our provider and must be protected at all costs.

Source: Scott Waide - My Land, My Country - 24 March 2020

So it’s a global pandemic with 15,000+ dead already, 350,000 infected and nearly 105,000 recovered.

ANZ compensates Cambodian families forcibly evicted to make way for sugar plantation

On 28 Feb, 2020 By ACTNOW

PHOTO: The sugarcane project saw hundreds of Cambodian families forcibly evicted from their land. (ABC News: Sam Clark)

Why Customary Land Cannot be 'Bankable'

Position Paper on Incorporated Land Groups

Hands Off! Why Customary Land should never be 'bankable'

On 24 Feb, 2020 By ACTNOW

24th February 2020

Banks want to lend money to people and small business in Papua New Guinea and to take rights over customary land as security in case the loans do not get repaid.

This could lead to a huge transfer of customary land into private ownership and lead to families and whole communities being forced off their land and losing their livelihoods.

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