Resource Tenure and Property Rights: Access and Ownership

A person or community’s rights to land and other natural resources defines their natural resource tenure. Legally, tenure is a bundle of both rights and obligations: the rights to own, hold, manage, transfer, or exploit resources and land, but also the obligation not to use these in a way that harms others (Bruce 1998a:1; FAO 2002:10). In other words, tenure defines property and what a person or group can do with it