This Decree provides for the protection of public land from unlawful deeds, occupation, trespass or other illegal encroachment or interference.The Decree prescribes penalties for unlawful sale or occupation of public land and provides for the ejection of trespassers. The Decree further defines “…

This Decree provides rules for the stipulation and execution of a mortgage and defines the effects of a mortgage and relative rights and duties of mortgagors and mortgagees.The rules of this Decree shall govern all mortgages. A mortgage may be created in any interest in movable property which is…

This Act provides rules relative to the survey of soil and land and the demarcation of land with boundary marks. It also provides for the protection of boundary marks and defines the powers of the Director of Geological Survey, officers of the Geological Survey Department and other persons…

This Act provides for a decentralised national system of planning and development. The Act defines planning duties of various local authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1993 and specifies procedures for the preparation and adoption of local development plans. The system shall…

Global concerns about fossil fuel prices and climate change have directed focus on prospects of biofuels. In Ghana, large-scale biofuel development has been entangled with several problems including disputes over land use and a combination of challenges such as low yield performance of Jatropha…

There is a gap between land tenure and the physical land giving room for impersonation, multiple allocation and sale of plots, loss of possession, land racketeering and fraud through forgery. Hence, the need to identify unambiguously parties involved in land transactions so that the root of…

Securing land rights of all including the youth to allow for investment is very imperative. This is because access to land is very fundamental to ending extreme poverty especially in the Sub-Saharan Africa where agriculture remains the economic backbone of majority of households.  To this end,…

Food insecurity has been a major global development concern. Hence, SDG Two seeks to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. The situation is severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where customary practices deprive women of land ownership and limit their access rights. This paper explores the influences of a…

Denial of women in land entitlements especially in patriarchal societies has been a major development concern in Ghana, resulting in promulgation of legal establishments that seek to enhance equality in access to land. This paper examines the underlying factors for gender inequality in land…