Land valuation in support of responsible land consolidation on Ghana’s rural customary lands

Asiama, K.O.; Bennett, Rohan; Zevenbergen, J.A.; Asiama, Seth Opuni

doi:10.1080/00396265.2018.1467672

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“…Within the land grabbing equation, grabbers perceive land value much higher than the price paid for it, which is the underlying reason for land acquisitions' magnitude. As a result, in practice, foreign land investors act competitively to meet their unlimited wants with their limited means [43], put their financial benefits first and offer as little as possible to other stakeholders, like farmers and other landowners. This approach ignores the reality of value creation as a collective process and, because, most often, large-scale land transactions take place within the capitalism framework, it can be inferred that one of the greatest weaknesses of capitalism is that it confuses the price with value [44].…”

Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

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What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resources are scarce and people depend on them, the balance between values and interests transforms itself into a dilemma. Within this context, the aims of the paper were to bring to the fore critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions and to extend the scant information on what factors determine landowners not to sell their land to foreigners to limit land grabbing. This context justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of eight land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social construct, the analysis captured the stakeholders’ perspective on land grabbing. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of 332 Romanian landowners from twelve randomly selected counties to reveal their perceptions. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to observe how well a set of seven variables could predict landowners’ “Resistance to sell” their land to foreign buyers. The use of PLS-SEM was justified by the existence of single items and the need to examine many structural model relations. Results showed that the variables with the strongest contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable are the “Probability to join an association for farmers rights defense”, the “Importance of the land price offered by the potential foreign buyer”, and the “Perceived effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land”. Raising awareness on the importance of buyer attributes, increasing people’s perception of the negative effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land, or strengthening the state’s image as a necessary actor to limit land grabbing will increase landowners’ resistance to sell their land to foreigners. Finally, it can be inferred that, within this frame of discussion, ethics should be valued as a means to create economically viable and morally justifiable solutions for foreign large-scale land transactions.

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Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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“…In this study, various criteria used in previous studies (Asiama, Bennett, Zevenbergen, & Asiama, 2018; Branković, Parezanović, & Simović, 2015; Demetriou, 2017, 2018; Tezcan, Büyüktas, & Aslan, 2020; Wyatt, 1996) were examined to extract the characteristics of agricultural land parcels. Table 1 lists the geometric, ownership, physical, and locational criteria used in this study to measure the spatial similarity between cadastral parcels and land blocks.…”

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Reallocation model in land consolidation using multi‐objective particle swarm optimization dealing with landowners' rights

Bijandi

Karimi

Bansouleh

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In conventional reallocation, farmers' preferences are used to determine the location of their new parcels in predetermined blocks. The most common conflict that can arise during this process is that demand may be high for some blocks. The manner of resolving such disputes, which deal directly with landowners' rights, can affect the success or failure of land consolidation projects. In this study, a novel model for land reallocation is proposed which is based on the principle that the initial situation of the landowner's parcels before land consolidation will be comparable with the new situation that includes all of his/her rights. For this, a spatial similarity‐based approach was proposed, taking into account geometric, ownership, physical, and locational criteria. Then, the agricultural land reallocation model (LR‐MOPSO) was developed using the multi‐objective particle swarm algorithm. Three objectives were defined: (1) simultaneous consideration of farmers' priority and spatial similarity criteria; (2) pooling of farmers' fragmented parcels; and (3) optimal placement of parcels within the block. The LR‐MOPSO model was applied to an Iranian case study and results were compared with a conventional approach. With this model decision‐makers in land consolidation projects will be able to redistribute parcels in a more transparent way, while dealing with landowners' rights.

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“…Survey Review regularly publishes papers which discuss ways in which cadastre and land administration can be improved. In July 2018, we published a Survey Review Prize-winning paper by Asiama et al (2018) on 'Land valuation in support of responsible land consolidation on Ghana's customary lands'. It is widely recognised that land consolidation has played an important role in enhancing the sustainability of agriculture by reducing fragmentation and increasing agricultural production in much of Europe and a number of Asian countries.…”

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Embedding the sustainability development goals in Survey Review’s remit

Collier

2020

Survey Review

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Land valuation in support of responsible land consolidation on Ghana’s rural customary lands

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Reallocation model in land consolidation using multi‐objective particle swarm optimization dealing with landowners' rights

Embedding the sustainability development goals in Survey Review’s remit

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