Participatory Land Administration on Customary Lands: A Practical VGI Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

verfasst von
Kwabena Asiama, Rohan Bennett, Jaap Zevenbergen
Abstract

Land information is one of the basic requirements for land management activities such as land consolidation. However, the dearth of land information on customary lands limits the development and application of land consolidation. This paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment carried out to test the potential of participatory land administration applied on customary lands in support of land consolidation. A brief overview of the evolution of crowdsourced, voluntary, and participatory approaches is provided alongside newly related insights into neogeography and neo-cadastre, and fit-for-purpose and pro-poor land administration. The concept of participatory land administration is then developed in this context. The area of the experiment is in Northern Ghana where the process was developed together with the local farming community. The study involved collecting land information relating to farms over a two-week period, using a mobile app and a satellite image, based on participatory land administration. The results show that Participatory Land Administration can potentially support land consolidation, though further investigation is needed on how it can be integrated into the formal land registration system, into an actual land consolidation project.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Geodätisches Institut
Typ
Artikel
Journal
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Band
6
Anzahl der Seiten
22
ISSN
2220-9964
Publikationsdatum
07.2017
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Geografie, Planung und Entwicklung, Computer in den Geowissenschaften, Erdkunde und Planetologie (sonstige)
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6070186 (Zugang: Unbekannt)
 

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