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   Triggers of Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Stakeholders’ Perspectives

   Journal Articles & Books

   April, 2017

   Ghana

   Land Conflicts

   land governance

   land use

   land access

   land conflicts

   water rights

   farmers

   In Ghana, farmer-herder conflicts have become widespread and increasingly assume a violent dimension. Competition over access to and use of land and water resources is at the center of the conflicts. However, competition does not automatically result in conflicts. The conflicts are driven by triggering activities of both farmers and herders. This study identifies triggers of farmer-herder conflicts in the Upper West Region of Ghana and tests the level of agreement among key stakeholder groups on the triggers of these conflicts.

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   Understanding, preventing and solving land conflicts: A practical guide and toolbox

   Training Resources & Tools

   April, 2017

   Global

   Land in post-conflict settings

   land administration

   land governance

   land rights

   land access

   land conflicts

   land tenure

   tenure security

   This guide is intended for practitioners who are confronted with land conflicts in the course of their work or are in a position to prevent them and/or include land governance as one pillar in their policies. It aims to broaden the understanding of the complexity of causes that lead to land conflicts in order to provide for better-targeted ways of addressing such conflicts, and provides a number of tools with which to analyse land disputes. In addition, this guidebook discusses a wide variety of options and tools for settling ongoing land conflicts and for preventing new ones.

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   In Search of the Solution to Farmer–Pastoralist Conflicts in Tanzania

   Journal Articles & Books

   May, 2017

   Tanzania

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   advocacy

   agriculture

   agropastoral systems

   land access

   land conflicts

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   Land-use conflict is not a new phenomenon for pastoralists  and farmers in Tanzania with murders, the killing of livestock and the loss of property as  a  consequence of  this  conflict  featuring   in  the  news  for  many years  now.  Various actors,  including civil society organisations, have tried  to  address  farmer–pastoralist conflict through  mass  education programmes, land-use planning, policy reforms and  the development of community institutions. However, these efforts have not succeeded in the conflict.

4. Library Resource

   

   USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

   A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

   Reports & Research

   April, 2017

   Ghana

   boundaries

   gender equity in access to land

   land inheritance rights

   customary law

   land use

   agricultural land management

   agriculture

   land

   alienation (land)

   encroachment

   collateral (land)

   land access

   control rights

   land conflicts

   farm tenancy

   community land rights

   customary land rights

   customary tenure

   farmers

   rural population

   women

   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.