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Partnership Valuation for Customary Land

April 14, 2026Customary Land, Uncategorizedcustomary land, Fiji, Indigenous Land, pacific, tribal land, land governance, SUITU, Partnership Valuation, ValuationCustomary Land Solutions

In the latest episode of The Customary Land Podcast, I reflect on why compensation is often not enough when development takes place on customary land and sea.

What may appear at first to be a reasonable lease, licence, compensation package, or revenue formula can, over time, narrow customary authority, weaken stewardship, and leave future generations with less room to decide. The deeper issue is not simply the amount paid. It is whether development is legitimate, properly authorised, governable across time, and structured in a way that strengthens rather than hollows out the customary system that made the opportunity possible.

In this episode, I introduce the idea of Partnership Valuation as a more honest and durable way of thinking about economic engagement on customary land, tribal land, and Indigenous land. Rather than treating customary people as passive recipients of impact, Partnership Valuation begins from the reality that they are often part of the creation of value itself.

The episode also situates this discussion within SUITU, an emerging governance legitimacy spine centred on Stewardship, Use rights, Intangible values, Tenure security, and Unification. The central discipline is clear: governance first, legitimacy second, valuation only then.

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If you want to learn more about Partnership Valuation, or would like to know more about SUITU and the SUITU Governance Integrity Platform, please email: contact@customarylandsolutions.com

International Valuation Standards Still Fall Short on Customary Land

April 7, 2026Valuation on Customary Landcustomary land, customary land podcast, Customary Land Solutions, Fiji, Fiji Land, FPIC, Governance Legitimacy, Highest and Best Use, Indigenous Land, International Valuation Standards, IVS, land governance, Market Value, pacific, Pacific Land, Property rights, Spike Boydell, SUITU, tribal land, UN DRIP, UNDRIP, ValuationCustomary Land Solutions

The International Valuation Standards 2028 Exposure Draft makes an important advance by recognising informal, communal, collective and tribal land interests more explicitly than many earlier standards have done. But when viewed through the realities of customary land, it still raises a deeper concern: what happens when a global technical valuation framework tries to make sense of customary land without first understanding what customary land is?

In this episode of The Customary Land Podcast, Spike Boydell reflects on why that matters, why customary land cannot simply be treated as an awkward variation within an inherited valuation system, and why legitimacy, stewardship, authority and intergenerational responsibility must be held before valuation is allowed to arrive.

The episode explores the deeper structural problem of valuation-first thinking in customary, tribal and Indigenous land contexts. It also explains why concepts such as market value, highest and best use, and valuation-date closure may be too narrow when dealing with living relational systems shaped by layered rights, obligation, continuity and customary authority.

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Rethinking mining law on customary land

April 3, 2026UncategorizedAustralia, benefit sharing, customary governance, customary land, customary land Fiji, customary land podcast, Customary Land Solutions, customary landowners, extractive industries, Fair Share of Mineral Royalties Act 2018, Fiji, Fiji Land, Fiji land law, Fiji Law Reform Commission, Fiji mining law, FPIC, free prior informed consent, Gold, Indigenous Rights, iTaukei, iTaukei Land Trust Board, iTLTB, mineral royalties, Mining Act 1965, mining and customary land, mining law, mining review Fiji, Namosi, pacific, Pacific Land, Pacific land governance, Partnership Valuation, podcast, Property rights, Quarries Act 1939, quarries law, quarry law, Resource Compensation, Rights of Indigenous Peoples Bill 2025, royalty sharing, Spike Boydell, SUITU, tribal land, Ulai Baya, UN DRIP, VanuaCustomary Land Solutions

Fiji is currently reviewing the Mining Act 1965 and the Quarries Act 1939. In this episode of The Customary Land Podcast, I reflect on why that matters for customary landowners, and why compensation, royalties, and consultation are not enough unless legitimacy, stewardship, and long-horizon responsibility come first.

The episode explores the deeper structural mismatch between inherited extractive law and living customary systems, and asks what must be in place before development on customary land can be treated as legitimate at all. It also introduces SUITU and the importance of a governance integrity spine.

The YouTube vodcast version is available here:
https://youtu.be/z2t0FBvdst4

The podcast version is available here:
https://www.thecustomarylandpodcast.com/2122490/episodes/18921346-rethinking-mining-law-on-customary-land

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