Land consolidation, customary lands, and Ghana's Northern Savannah Ecological Zone: An evaluation of the possibilities and pitfalls

Abubakari, Zaid; Molen, P. van der; Bennett, Rohan; Kuusaana, Elias Danyi

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.02.033

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“…The second is the vegetation cover of the area, guinea savannah, together with the climate of the area that reduces the incidence of multipath errors and cloudy satellite imagery. Thirdly, agriculture is the main vocation in the area, with many small-scale farmers with small and scattered parcels, with a need for land consolidation [62]. The farms on the Eastern part of the Nanton Village were mapped by the farmers, and family heads, with the assistance of the Trusted Intermediaries (TI) (Figure 2).…”

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“…In the land administration domain, many existing innovative approaches support tenure security. A detailed record on land ownership, use rights, as well as the spatial extent of those rights is a condition sine qua non for land consolidation processes, but the success of land consolidation is dependent on the economic and ecological improvements for land and people [62]. PLA also allows for the inclusion and collection of other information relevant for land consolidation such as the types of crops that are grown on the farm parcels, as well as the crops that can potentially be grown, the topography of the area, the soil types, as well as the land values of the farm parcels [3,79].…”

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Participatory Land Administration on Customary Lands: A Practical VGI Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

Asiama

Bennett

Zevenbergen

2017

IJGI

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Land information is one of the basic requirements for land management activities such as land consolidation. However, the dearth of land information on customary lands limits the development and application of land consolidation. This paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment carried out to test the potential of participatory land administration applied on customary lands in support of land consolidation. A brief overview of the evolution of crowdsourced, voluntary, and participatory approaches is provided alongside newly related insights into neogeography and neo-cadastre, and fit-for-purpose and pro-poor land administration. The concept of participatory land administration is then developed in this context. The area of the experiment is in Northern Ghana where the process was developed together with the local farming community. The study involved collecting land information relating to farms over a two-week period, using a mobile app and a satellite image, based on participatory land administration. The results show that Participatory Land Administration can potentially support land consolidation, though further investigation is needed on how it can be integrated into the formal land registration system, into an actual land consolidation project. mostly because first, their pace is very slow in relation to the urgency of the results. Secondly, they have been too expensive, leaving them out of the reach of most citizens. Thirdly, these approaches have largely failed to integrate all forms of land tenure arrangements, especially secondary and customary land rights. The outcome is that parts of the community are left vulnerable to land grabs, contentious land disputes, limited investment in land, and increase in food insecurity. In response, calls for pro-poor and fit-for-purpose approaches to land administration have emerged [7,8]. These approaches, that seek to adapt local needs and circumstances in tandem with legitimate and acceptable social, cultural, and institutional practices, are described by de Vries et al. [9] as responsible approaches.Advances in responsible approaches usually consider new ways through which different forms of legitimate land rights can be recorded and documented on one hand; and on the other hand, explore how emerging and cutting edge technologies in geospatial sciences offer faster and cheaper options for spatial data collection. New insights into documenting all forms of land rights have been made by the continuum of land rights by the GLTN [10], and several studies in customary and informal land rights [6,11,12]. On the part of spatial data collection, emerging and cutting edge technologies have advanced new approaches to land administration in the form of crowdsourcing, voluntary geographic information (VGI), and neo-cadastres. These technologies include the use of old map documents, high resolution satellite images (HRSI), tools based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as well as smart technologies such as Automatic Featu...

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Participatory Land Administration on Customary Lands: A Practical VGI Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

Asiama

Bennett

Zevenbergen

2017

IJGI

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“…The contribution of the interactions between these six factors to agricultural productivity has attracted increasing attention, such as comprehensive consideration of investment intensity and farmland quality has been used for farmland consolidation planning with the subject of improving agricultural productivity (Tang et al, 2017). The interactions between multiple cropping index/distance RL and other factors (e.g., the content of total nitrogen, organic matter, sand, and clay in soil) may make a greater contribution to increase the improvement of PR than that among other factors (Figure 7), which explains that utilization level, facility of farming, soil fertility, and field water holding capacity are the main factors to affect spatial patterns of PR and imply that PR has close relationship with the interactions between the factors at the project area or micro level (Abubakari, van der Molen, Bennett, & Kuusaana, 2016;Jiang, Wang, Yun, & Zhang, 2015). The interactions between the factors (i.e., the multiyear average of CV before consolidation and farmland quality) and other factors have more considerable contribution to S than that between other factors, and the interaction between the multiyear average of CV before consolidation and meteorological condition (e.g., cumulative temperature and frost-free period) is particularly outstanding (the contribution to S may be the largest one; Figure 8).…”

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Determining the effect of land consolidation on agricultural production using a novel assessment framework

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Land consolidation (LC) is regarded as a useful tool to improve agricultural production. Measuring the effect of LC on agricultural production (ELC AP ) is helpful for the planning of LC activities. In the past, it is difficult to measure ELC AP at regional level due to the lack of field observation, the change of crop planting structure, and high cost of sample collection. Satellite data have large coverage and high spatiotemporal resolution for vegetation observation, which can provide a new idea for estimating ELC AP at regional level. This study aims to build a novel assessment framework to quantitatively investigate ELC AP by developing several satellite-based metrics. In addition, this study also explored the characteristics of ELC AP using the method of spatial autocorrelation and the geographical detector method in 1,281 LC areas in China. Our results show that agricultural productivity in more than 90% of total LC areas shows an increasing trend during 2001-2016. LC could play the positive but limited effects on agricultural production, and its productivity-boosting effect (64.87% of total LC areas) is greater than its stability-improving effect (46.53% of total LC areas). The spatial agglomeration of ELC AP is weak (Moran's I < 0.06), which may be resulted from the differences in field conditions and natural-social-economic situations across LC areas. The interaction between several factors has a greater effect on the ELC AP than each of these factors. Methodology in this study provides a new and useful framework for evaluating ELC AP , and results can be used to guide the planning of LC activities.

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“…In most Ghanaian communities, especially within the savannah ecological zone, females have less access to land [51,52], Landholding is the priority of men and females' access to land is dependent on contractual agreement with husbands or husbands voluntarily donating lands [53] Traditionally, patrilineal inheritance is also associated with the people in the area given credence to men as successors. Even though, Abubakari et al, [54] argue that more females are involved in farming activities, they are only used as labourers leading to their low participation in associations.…”

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Peasant Associations and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in the Northern and Brong-Ahafo Regions of Ghana

Anuga

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Mbanya³

2019

AJAEES

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Peasant association plays a central role in climate change adaptation. Farmer-based associations serve as a conduit for the implementation of climate change adaptation practices by contributing to knowledge sharing and assimilation. In Ghana, the role of peasant associations in climate change adaptation is unnoticed. Employing a mixed research approaches the procurement of data, this study gives a deeper understanding of peasant associations and their activities of two regions in the country. It also examines the contributions of peasant associations to climate change adaptation. It was established that peasant associations promoted understanding and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies including preparation and application of compost, residue management, row/distance planting, use of drought tolerant seeds, afforestation and crop rotation which benefited farmers in getting more yield and by extension being able to reinvest in their farms and venture into other livelihood strategies. The study concluded that Non- Governmental Organizations interested in climate change adaptation should target and build the capacity of farmer peasant groups for appropriate climate change adaptation and achievement of poverty alleviation and long-term food security.

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Land consolidation, customary lands, and Ghana's Northern Savannah Ecological Zone: An evaluation of the possibilities and pitfalls

Cited by 84 publications

References 25 publications

Participatory Land Administration on Customary Lands: A Practical VGI Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

Participatory Land Administration on Customary Lands: A Practical VGI Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

Determining the effect of land consolidation on agricultural production using a novel assessment framework

Peasant Associations and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in the Northern and Brong-Ahafo Regions of Ghana

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