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Changing ecosystem services are increasing people's vulnerability in semi-arid regions : an ASSAR cross-regional insight

Policy Papers & Briefs
October, 2019
Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Sub-Saharan Africa
land use change
Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) researchers collaborated to understand the complex changes and patterns in semi-arid vegetation and socio-ecological systems. Ecosystems were mapped using a cross-regional coarse scale study, relying on climate data to capture global and regional trends. Finest spatial scale mapping relied on LANDSAT to show changes in land use and land cover. Details of observed changes are provided for Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, West Africa, and India. Links to referenced studies are embedded in the report.
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The Role of the Manhyia Palace in Traditional Land Resource Conflict Management in Kumasi, Ghana

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2016
Ghana
Land Conflicts
land management
land use
land rights
land conflicts
land dispute resolution
land tenure
tenure security
This paper explores the role of Manhyia Palace, a traditional political office of the Asantehene (King of Asante Kingdom) in traditional land conflict management in Kumasi. Land conflicts remain a major hindrance to land use and tenure security in most parts of Ghana. Sometimes, the institutions governing land use and management are crucial to the occurrence and adjudication of these disputes. Consequently, statistics at the Accra High Court Registry shows that, land litigation ranks first in the number of cases pending with about 60,000 cases being registered in the superior courts.
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Reshaping the terrain: Forest landscape restoration efforts in Ghana

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2018
Ghana
Forest Landscape Restoration
environment
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
land governance
land policies
local communities
natural resources management
As one of the key partners of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR 100), Ghana is committed to restore 2 million hectares of its land by 2030. In this factsheet, the major approaches to forest landscape restoration are outlined and enabling conditions as well as major constraints to forest landscape restoration elaborated.
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Productivity of hired and family labour and determinants of technical inefficiency in Ghana's fish farms

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2010
Ghana
land
This paper examines the productivity of hired and family labour and the determinants of the technical efficiency of fish farms in Ghana. A modified Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function which accounts for zero usage of family and hired labour is employed on cross-sectional data of 150 farmers collected in 2007. The results reveal that family labour, hired labour, feed, seed, land, other costs and extension visit have a reasserting influence on fish farm production.
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Nature & Faune journal, Volume 32, Numéro 1

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2018
Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Switzerland, Kenya, Zambia, Niger, Uganda, Mali, Sweden, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ghana, Congo, Malawi, Finland, Canada
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
Ce numéro de Nature &Faune explore la science etles innovations (techniques,sociales et politiques) quipeuvent soutenir la réalisationde ce rêve africain.
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Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2004
Ghana, Western Africa
Land & Gender
land rights
land
This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women. Yet the increase in the demand for women's labour due to the expansion of labour intensive cocoa cultivation has created incentives for husbands to give their wives and children land. Through this and other gift mechanisms, women have increasingly acquired land, thereby reducing the gender gap in land ownership.
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Cost implications of agricultural land degradation in Ghana

An economywide, multimarket model assessment

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2007
Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
sustainable land management
poverty
"An economywide, multimarket model is constructed for Ghana and the effects of agricultural soil erosion on crop yields are explicitly modeled at the subnational regional level for eight main staple crops. The model is used to evaluate the aggregate economic costs of soil erosion by taking into account economywide linkages between production and consumption, across sectors and agricultural subsectors... Sustainable land management (SLM) is the key to reducing agricultural soil loss.
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Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2018
Southern Africa, Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
environment
climate change
natural disasters
sustainable land management
food security
natural resources management
women
As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall.
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Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in upper West Ghana

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2017
Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
farming systems
contract farming
agricultural and rural legislation
agriculture
research
The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show that these schemes led to improved technology adoption and yield increases. In addition, a subset of maize farmers with high yield improvements due to CF participation had high gross margins. However, on average, yields were not high enough to compensate for higher input requirements and cost of capital.
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Briefing note: Governing Land Investments: Do Governments Have Legal Support Gaps?

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2018
Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, Laos
Land & Investments
land investments
land-use planning
In the wave of efforts to encourage and support more “responsible” land investments, one aspect has been largely overlooked: are governments equipped with the legal and technical support needed to effectively negotiate and conclude investment contracts that lead to responsible outcomes?