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Case Study: Farmer–Herder Conflicts in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire
Land Conflicts
land policies
environment
climate change
land conflicts
farmers
This chapter is a case study that tests hypotheses in order to determine if political factors can reduce violence in cases of climate-change-induced or -aggravated agro-pastoral conflicts over natural resources. Three West African countries were selected because of their common socio-economic and environmental characteristics and because they host comparable farmer–herder conflicts: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The level of farmer–herder conflicts is estimated to have risen between 1960 and 2000 in the three countries.
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Widow's Cry (Pakorpa Susangho)

Videos
December, 2016
Western Africa, Ghana
Land & Corruption
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
local communities
poverty
women
Pakorpa Susangho’ (Widow’s Cry) is an exploration of how corruption impacts on widows in the Upper East region of Ghana. This participatory video was devised and shot by ten widows from Kulbia, on the outskirts of Bolgatanga, using cutting-edge production techniques and equipment (including iPads as powerful video cameras). The filmmakers, whose ages range from 29 to 60, lack any formal education yet learned to operate the equipment with confidence and skill during a series of participatory video workshops packed with fun games and exercises.
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SYNTHESIS REPORT – GENDER & COLLECTIVELY HELD LAND

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Namibia, Ghana, Peru, Kyrgyzstan, China, Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land reform
land rights
land tenure
land use
sustainable development
women
GOOD PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM SIX GLOBAL CASE STUDIES
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Ghana: Gender and the Land Access and Tenure Security Project

Reports & Research
August, 2016
Ghana, Africa
Land & Gender
land
land access
land rights
women
Case study identifies good practices and lessons learned about including gender in a project designed to sensitize communities about the importance of securing land rights, build capacity of customary land secretariats, and provide alternative dispute resolution training to traditional authorities in the Northern Region of Ghana.
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Perceived Land Tenure Security and Rural Transformation: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Ghana, Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
women
land
land markets
farmers
land tenure
Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. But collectively, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.
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Foodsheds and city region food systems in two West African cities

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Western Africa
urban population
climate change
In response to changing urban food systems, short supply chains have been advocated to meet urban food needs while building more sustainable urban food systems. Despite an increasing interest in urban food supply and the flows of food from production to consumption, there is a lack of empirical studies and methodologies which systematically analyse the actual proportion and nutritional significance of local and regional food supplied to urban markets.
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Experiences from stakeholder dialogues in Tamale, northern Ghana

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Ghana
natural resources management
farmers
peri-urban agriculture
farming systems
Tamale is the capital city of Ghana’s Northern Region. As the regional capital, Tamale is growing rapidly – the population has almost tripled to over 370,000 in the past 30 years, and the areal extent has increased up to sevenfold in the same period. Urban agriculture is an integral part of the food system, linked to resource management and spatial planning. In general one can say that backyard farming flourishes, but more formally organised production is threatened by urbanisation.
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A review on production, marketing and use of fuel briquettes

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Ghana, Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Africa
youth
women
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Women and Land in Africa

The Cost of Corruption

Reports & Research
May, 2016
Zimbabwe, Ghana
Land & Corruption
corruption
customary land rights
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
marital property rights
women
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Access to farmland gets quick and dirty in sub-Saharan Africa

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal
customary land rights
dispossession
farmers
farmland
land access
occupation
Who can access and use the land? The answer to this age-old question is changing fast in many parts of rural Africa. Land that used to be allocated within the community by chiefs is now increasingly changing hands in more diverse ways. The wealthy and well-connected within the community or from further afield are frequently able to override local statutory or customary land rights, dispossessing the previous occupants or forcing them to divide their already small plots of land.