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Land tenure, food security, gender and urbanization in Northern Ghana

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.
E. Nchanji, T. Chagomoka, I. Bellwood‐Howard, A. Drescher, N. Schareika, J. Schlesinger   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Investment Case for Land Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cost–Benefit Analysis

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2023
Government is the custodian of the most critical (and limited) factor of production, namely, land. Assuring the security of tenure, arbitrating disputes, and facilitating the transfer or sales of titles renders the land market more efficient and less ...
F. Byamugisha, Nancy Dubosse
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

Effects of the Systematic Cluster Approach (SCA) and Rural Land Plans (RLPs) on Land Tenure Security for Agricultural Household: Insight from Benin (West Africa)

Land, 2022
Rural land plans (RLP) and the systematic cluster approach (SCA) are the two main approaches used in Benin to secure rural land tenure. However, the contributions of these approaches to land tenure security in rural communities are mixed.
Inoussa Guinin Asso, Soulé Akinhola Adéchian, Mohamed Salifou, Bédé Prudence M’po Kouyinampou, Bruno Charles Pierre O’heix, Mohamed Nasser Baco   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land tenure drives Brazil’s deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts

Nature Communications, 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 ...
Andrea Pacheco, Carsten Meyer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Center for Land Tenure Studies 2022 Annual Report [PDF]

, 2023
The Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS) published in 11 working papers and 14 peer reviewed journal articles. The published worked covered issues around land tenure policies, land markets, housing markets, environmental reliance, and REDD ...
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) - Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS)
core   +2 more sources

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

Determinants of land tenure security among small-holder farmers in rural Kenya: An ordered probit analysis

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Land tenure security is key to rural transformation, diversification, increased agricultural production, and environmental sustainability. However, its determinants are still unclear, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where land tenure insecurity ...
Joseph Jabu Mbudzya, Eric Obedy Gido, George Owuor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research on the Influence Mechanism of Land Tenure Security on Farmers’ Cultivated Land Non-Grain Behavior

Agriculture, 2022
Cultivated land planting structure is directly related to China’s food security. The Central Rural Work Conference in 2021 pointed out that to ensure food security, attention should be paid to the adjustment of planting structure.
Jizhou Zhang, Xiaojing Li, Shouhong Xie, X. Xia   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Land tenure legislation and soil security concerns in Cameroon

Soil Security, 2022
This chapter explores the interface between land tenure rights and soil security and screens through the Cameroonian land tenure legislation in order to identify relevant provisions that guarantee soil security.
Christopher Funwie Tamasang
doaj   +1 more source