Meeting the 2030 Agenda: Responsible Consolidation of Ghana's Customary Lands

verfasst von

Kwabena Asiama, Winrich Voß, Rohan Bennett, Jaap Zevenbergen

Abstract

Land Consolidation on Sub-Saharan Africa’s customary lands have generally failed for various reasons. However, with the prevalence of land fragmentation as a problem in the past two decades, there has been a new wave of land consolidation activities in the region. Land fragmentation on customary lands has two main causes—the nature of the customary land tenure system, and the somewhat linked agricultural system. Since attempts to increase food productivity on customary lands have involved fertilisation and mechanisation on the small and scattered farmlands, these approaches have fallen short of increasing food productivity. Land tenure security is further low on these lands. This study examines how a responsible land consolidation measure can be developed for customary lands to contribute to food security and land tenure security. A design research approach is used to develop a land consolidation measure for customary lands and reported here. This study concludes that though the land consolidation strategy developed is significantly able to reduce land fragmentation, both physical and land tenure, the local customs are an obstruction to the technical processes to achieve the best form of farmland structures. Hence the developed approach can contribute to land tenure and food security.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Geodätisches Institut

Externe Organisation(en)

Swinburne University of Technology
University of Twente

Typ

Paper

Anzahl der Seiten

20

Publikationsdatum

2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 2 – Kein Hunger

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