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    Understanding changing land access and use by the rural poor in Ghana cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2017
    Ghana

    In Ghana 70 per cent of the population are smallholder farmers who depend on the land for their basic needs. Growing competition for this resource is having significant impacts on rural livelihoods and governance as land changes hands. This study highlights the key drivers of pressure on rural land and their communities, such as population growth, urbanisation and acquisition of land by new actors, including government and business.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2000
    Bangladesh, Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, El Salvador, Brazil, Ghana, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, Peru, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Thailand, Honduras, Asia, Americas
  3. Library Resource
    Ghanaian cocoa farmer establishing specially-approved farm boundary pillars under the guidance of a Landmapp field agent (the pillar will be mounted with cement after mapping). Courtesy: Landmapp (www.landmapp.net)

    A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

    Reports & Research
    April, 2017
    Ghana

    The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.

  4. Library Resource
    January, 2014
    Ghana

    Ghana, like many other African
    countries, had made a commitment in 2003 to allocate at
    least ten percent of their national budgetary resources to
    develop the agricultural sector by 2008, following the
    adoption of the Comprehensive African Agriculture
    Development Programme (CAADP), with an aim towards realizing
    food security and poverty reduction. This Agriculture Public
    Expenditure Review (AgPER) for Ghana analyzes data on public

  5. Library Resource
    December, 2014
    Ghana

    This report is the most recent in a
    series aimed at monitoring economic developments in Ghana
    and has two sections. The first section summarizes the
    recent macroeconomic developments in the country while the
    second section presents the main findings on poverty and
    employment published recently by the Ghana statistical
    service. Ghana s overall macroeconomic conditions have
    deteriorated further in 2014 with large twin-deficits

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