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Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land, 2019
Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Gaynor Paradza, Walter Dachaga   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana. [PDF]

Land use policy, 2023
Links between land tenure and food and nutritional insecurity are receiving increased attention. Nevertheless, urban and periurban dwellers face challenges in accessing land to produce food for subsistence and sale.
Nchanji EB, Chagomoka T, Bellwood-Howard I, Drescher A, Schareika N, Schlesinger J.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Land tenure drives Brazil's deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
How land-tenure regimes affect deforestation remains ambiguous. This study shows how deforestation in Brazil is land-tenure dependent, and how strategies to effectively reduce deforestation can range from strengthening poorly defined rights to ...
Pacheco A, Meyer C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The importance of different land tenure systems for farmers’ response to climate change: A systematic review

Climate Risk Management, 2022
Climate change increasingly affects agricultural systems, making it necessary for farmers to adapt to changing climatic conditions. An important element shaping farmers’ adaptation decisions and their vulnerability is their respective land tenure system.
Lisa Murken, Christoph Gornott
doaj   +2 more sources

Land Tenure Disputes and Resolution Mechanisms: Evidence from Peri-Urban and Nearby Rural Kebeles of Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia

Land, 2021
In Ethiopia, like in other developing countries, land disputes are critical problems both in peri-urban and rural areas. Handling such disputes requires scientific and evidence-based interventions.
Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu, Tilahun Dires, Worku Nega, Reinfried Mansberger   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Customary versus conventional land administration systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2022
Context and background:  The essential emerging reality from the statutory-versus-customary tenure debate is that both customary and statutory tenure systems have faults and good merits.
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Ernest Uwayezu, Mutjinde Katjuia   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Resolving land tenure security is essential to deliver forest restoration

Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
Tropical countries are making ambitious commitments to Forest Landscape Restoration with the aim of locking up carbon, conserving biodiversity and benefiting local livelihoods.
O. Rakotonarivo, Mirindra Rakotoarisoa, H. M. Rajaonarivelo, Stefana Raharijaona, Julia P. G. Jones, N. Hockley   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking the Impact of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Land Disputes, Land Management, and Agricultural Production: Insights from South Wello, Ethiopia

Land, 2023
Land is a precious resource in the Ethiopian highlands, where the entire agricultural system depends on rain-fed system. The resource faces multiple interconnected environmental and socioeconomic challenges.
Bichaye Tesfaye, M. Lengoiboni, J. Zevenbergen, B. Simane   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Saving species beyond the protected area fence: Threats must be managed across multiple land tenure types to secure Australia's endangered species

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
The main effort to secure threatened species globally is to set aside land and sea for their conservation via governance arrangements such as protected areas.
S. Kearney, J. Carwardine, April E. Reside, V. Adams, Rebecca Nelson, A. Coggan, Rebecca Spindler, J. Watson   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transparency of Land Administration and the Role of Blockchain Technology, a Four-Dimensional Framework Analysis from the Ghanaian Land Perspective

Land, 2020
Existing studies on blockchain within land administration have focused mainly on replacing or complementing the technology for land registration and titling.
Prince Donkor Ameyaw, Walter Timo de Vries   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source