scholarly journals Farmer-herder conflicts, tenure insecurity and farmer’s investment decisions in Agogo, Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Selorm Kobla Kugbega ◽  
Prince Young Aboagye
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Agricultural Investment ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
Land Administration Systems

AbstractOwing to climate change, population growth and tenurial changes, the past decade has witnessed high interest among migrant and settler pastoralist groups in the vegetal-rich customary lands of the Agogo Traditional Area. This has resulted in lease grants of large land areas to pastoralists by traditional authorities and usufruct families, for reasons of ensuring optimum use and gaining the highest returns from lands. This paper examines the implications of consequent competing interests over land resources between farmers and herders on indigenous farmer’s agricultural investment decisions. The study uses qualitative methods and empirical evidence is given by primary data from semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions in the case study area. Results indicated that land owners exploit lapses in customary land administration systems to allocate lands in exchange for money, to pastoralists while neglecting indigenous farmers’ land use rights. Thus, indigenous farmers report land tenure insecurity and a sense of deprivation from their customary lands. Despite tenure insecurity concerns, farmer’s agricultural investment decisions remain unchanged because such changes in investment decisions may reduce incomes and compromise their livelihoods. The findings herein contradict theoretical expectations and provide new perspectives for understanding the relationship between tenure (in)security and investment decisions.

Customary Land-Tenure and the Poor: A Study of Jharkhand and Meghalaya

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-446
Author(s):  
Ankita Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
And Control ◽  
Individual Ownership

For most people living in rural India having access and control over land is crucial for their livelihood, more so in the case of tribals. This article analyses the nature of the customary land-tenure system in some districts of Jharkhand and Meghalaya and their impact on livelihood patterns, food security and poverty. Based on both secondary and primary data, the article seeks to examine the nature of the customary land-tenure systems in selected scheduled areas; specifically identifying the status of locals versus non-locals in managing land resources and analysing the extent to which women have been able to secure land rights under customary laws. The article concludes that though there are both positive and negative aspects to community and individual ownership of agricultural land, but on the whole the prevailing system does not helping in bettering the conditions of disadvantaged communities.

scholarly journals SIKAP PEMILIK LAHAN TERHADAP ALIH FUNGSI LAHAN DI DESA KALASEY SATU

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3A) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Saiful ., Sarayar ◽  
Rine ., Kaunang ◽  
Mex L. Sondakh
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
City Government ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Index Number ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Land Owners

This study aims to determine the attitude of landowners against land conversion in the village Kalasey One, Minahasa. This research was conducted by using primary data obtained from interviews on a sample of attitudes concerning land owners who've experienced over the land by using a questionnaire that has been prepared. Secondary data were obtained from the Office of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) and the Office of Manado City Government Kalasey Village One. The results showed that the attitude of landowners against land conversion mostly to take place quickly and the conversion is done by first over land tenure. Land converted generally used to build houses and residential areas. Factors that cause land conversion categorized into internal factors such as the pressing economic needs and the desire to change the fate, as well as external factors such as population growth and government policies. Meanwhile land use also has a positive effect, namely the presence of housing construction resulted in the development of rural economy. The attitude of landowners against land conversion is at an index number of 73.73 percent means included in either category.

scholarly journals Whose security? Deepening social conflict over ‘customary’ land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline E. Peters ◽  
Daimon Kambewa
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Community Variability ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Customary Land

ABSTRACTMalawi, like other countries in Africa, has a new land policy designed to clarify and formalise customary tenure. The country is poor with a high population density, highly dependent on agriculture, and the research sites are matrilineal-matrilocal, and near urban centres. But the case raises issues relevant to land tenure reform elsewhere: the role of ‘traditional authorities’ or chiefs vis-à-vis the state and ‘community’; variability in types of ‘customary’ tenure; and deepening inequality within rural populations. Even before it is implemented, the pending land policy in Malawi is intensifying competition over land. We discuss this and the increase in rentals and sales; the effects of public debates about the new land policy; a new discourse about ‘original settlers’ and ‘strangers’; and political manoeuvring by chiefs.

scholarly journals Conflits Fonciers Et Problématique De Développement Rural Dans La Sous-Préfecture De Mongo, Région Du Guéra (Tchad)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (32) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Moussa Alladjaba ◽  
Hervé Tchekote
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Colonial Authority ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Traditional Authorities

Located in the Guéra region in central Chad, the Mongo Sub-Prefecture is the scene of recurring conflicts related to the occupation and exploitation of the land. While the phenomenon is neither new nor specific to this part of the country, the scale it has taken in recent years makes it a worrying subject. This land conflicts are driven by a multitude of actors with traditional authorities, agricultural producers and the urban elite at the center. They are fuelled by the fact that the legal land tenure system, set up first by the colonial authority and then renewed by the Chadian authorities, has never been a reality in rural areas. To conduct the study the questionnaire survey was conducted from a sample of 106 households. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews supplemented the information collected through the questionnaires. The results reveal not only a pluralism of norms whose contradiction in implementation is inevitably conflicting, but also and above all the actors' play around rural land, with a multitude of conflicts whose impact is strongly felt by populations, both in terms of agricultural or pastoral production, and in terms of trade and social cohesion. At the end of the study, it turns out that the population largely ignores the laws governing the land. The result is a pluralism of norms, but the customary rules are preponderant. This determines several modes of access and use of the land.

scholarly journals Toward Smart Land Management: Land Acquisition and the Associated Challenges in Ghana. A Look into a Blockchain Digital Land Registry for Prospects

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Prince Donkor Ameyaw ◽  
Walter Timo de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Land Management System ◽  
Land Administration Systems

Land acquisition in Ghana is fraught with challenges of multiple sales, numerous unofficial charges, unnecessary bureaucracies, intrusion of unqualified middlemen, and lack of transparency among others. Studies have suggested digitization as a way forward to improve Ghana’s land management system and to address these acquisition challenges. However, none of these studies have specifically provided a clear conceptual digital framework for land acquisition. Most contemporary land literature globally appraise blockchain technology as a potential solution to these challenges in Ghana’s land acquisition process. This article applies an integrative review, mixed with strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, and deductive lessons from a digital land registry concept to develop a blockchain-based smart land acquisition framework solution in view of Ghana’s land acquisition challenges. However, it is identified that threats of sabotage of this framework exist among some customary land owners, land officials, and private blockchain-based land experts for various reasons. Among others, a legal basis for a public–private partnership is recommended particularly to discourage sabotage from private blockchain-based land experts. We recommend future research works to delve into establishing a framework that can be used as a guide to assess the readiness of land management and land administration systems for blockchain consideration in sub-Sahara Africa, particularly Ghana.

scholarly journals Baleni v Minister of Mineral Resources 2019 2 SA 453 (GP): Paving the Way for Formal Protection of Informal Land Rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Yolandi Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Petroleum Resources ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Mining Right

In Baleni v Minister of Mineral Resources 2019 2 SA 453 (GP) the court, duly following the judicial guidance provided in Maledu v Itereleng Bakgatla Mineral Resources 2019 2 SA 1 (CC), made an important pronouncement on the rights of people who hold informal land tenure. The question in the Baleni judgment concerned the level of consent required to obtain a mining right over property held by a community with informal or customary land tenure. The court specifically considered provisions of the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act 31 of 1996 (IPILRA) and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 (MPRDA), and concluded that the provisions of these Acts should be read together when determining the level of consent required. The court found that a community's consent, as required by IPILRA, and not merely consultation with a community, as required by the MPRDA, is necessary before a mining right can be obtained over a community's property. The Baleni and the Maledu judgments set an important judicial precedent protecting informal land owners against the potentially harmful effects of mining activities, and establish a higher standard for obtaining a mining right over such property. However, despite the success of the judgment, many questions remain regarding the longevity of IPILRA, in particular, and a long-term solution to informal land tenure and land security in general. This case note argues that final legislation should be enacted to provide protection for people who hold informal land rights, and consequently to formalise indigenous communities' land rights to ensure that these judgments act as the precursor for fundamental change in the current debate regarding informal land rights.

scholarly journals Modern Trends in Ownership and Acquisition of Large-scale Lands in Teshie and Kasoa, Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Appau Williams Miller ◽  
Oliver Tannor ◽  
Ofori Peres
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Head ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
Traditional Authorities

With the rising urbanisation of some parts of Ghana, the demand for land for various purposes is inevitable. The article assesses current trend of  large-scale land acquisition in Teshie and Kasoa. The study used semi-structured interviews to solicit primary data from key informants such as chiefs at Nyanyano-Kasoa and Tsie-We family head at Teshie, land guards, and investors who acquire large scale lands in these areas to identify the trends in such acquisitions between 2014 to 2019.The study uncovered that though there are variations in the nature of land ownership in Teshie and Kasoa, multiple sale of lands, poor land management practices, litigation and land guarding are common practices in both areas. The study found that there is an institutional gap as both the state and traditional institutions have not really done much to deal with the challenges  confronting LSLAs in these areas. It is recommended that land owning groups be engaged and educated by the Lands Commission in collaboration with Customary Lands Secretariat on proper ways to manage and sell their lands to avoid multiple sales and the conflicts that it brings. The Ghana police service should crackdown on land guarding which is an illegal activity. Keywords: Large-scale, Land Acquisition, Land Ownership, Customary Land Secretariat, Traditional Authorities

scholarly journals Conservation Debates: People’s Perceptions and Values towards a Privately Protected Area in Southern Ecuador

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Verónica Iñiguez-Gallardo ◽  
Fabián Reyes-Bueno ◽  
Olga Peñaranda
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Land Tenure System

The perceptions and values that local communities have towards protected areas are of great value for the improvement of these territories’ management. Such perceptions and values are often absent in the conservation planning process, particularly in those privately protected areas that are established in areas where the land tenure system is based not only on ownership but also on customary uses. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data obtained through semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders and members of communities surrounding a privately protected area in southern Ecuador, we identify that the level of collaboration with the managers, the distance to the protected area, the percentage of untitled land, and the dependence on the resources (customary uses) are among the variables affecting these perceptions and values. Positive perceptions towards protected areas and naturalistic values are developed among those who collaborate with the protected area managers, whereas negative perceptions, and a mix of naturalistic and biospheric values are developed among those who have a sense of a lack of attention to social needs although supporting nature conservation at the same time. The evidence presented shows the importance of matching local peoples’ expectations with conservation goals during the establishment of a protected area.

scholarly journals Zambian farm blocks: A vehicle for increased private sector investments

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 817-825
Author(s):  
Susanna L. Middelberg ◽  
Pieter van der Zwan ◽  
Cobus Oberholster
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Private Sector Investment

AbstractThe Zambian government has introduced the farm block development programme (FBDP) to facilitate agricultural land and rural development and encourage private sector investment. This study assessed whether the FBDP achieves these goals. Key obstacles and possible opportunities were also identified and, where appropriate, specific corrective actions were recommended. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted in Lusaka with various stakeholders of the FBDP. The FBDP is designed to facilitate agricultural land development and encourage private sector investment. However, the programme falls far short in terms of implementation, amidst policy uncertainty and lack of support. This is evident by the insecurity of land tenure which negatively affects small- and medium-scale producers’ access to financing, lack of infrastructure development of these farm blocks, and constraints in the agricultural sector such as low labour productivity and poor access to service expertise. It is recommended that innovative policy interventions should be created to support agricultural development. This can be achieved by following a multistakeholder approach through involving private, public and non-profit sectors such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and donors.

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