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Responsible consolidation of customary lands

A framework for land reallocation

authored by
Kwabena Obeng Asiama, R.M. Bennett, J.A. Zevenbergen, A. Da Silva Mano
Abstract

Land reallocation is an important step of land consolidation where farmland parcels are reorganised and redistributed. Most current land reallocation approaches focus on the technical aspects, at the expense of the social, cultural, economic, and political factors which are important on customary lands. This paper develops an approach for land reallocation to support responsible land consolidation on customary lands taking these factors into consideration. Using the process model approach, we identify the key characteristics of customary land tenure and the general requirements for land reallocation of these lands; from which a land re-allocation approach is developed. This is subsequently applied to a case study in Northern Ghana. The results show that even though the approach is successful to the extent that land fragmentation (physical and legal) is significantly reduced in the study area; social land mobility, land tenure and cultural practices hinder the application of the land reallocation as this would either increase legal or physical land fragmentation.

External Organisation(s)
Swinburne University of Technology
University of Twente
Type
Article
Journal
LAND USE POLICY
Volume
83
Pages
412-423
No. of pages
12
ISSN
0264-8377
Publication date
04.2019
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Forestry, Geography, Planning and Development, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 15 - Life on Land
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.02.006 (Access: Closed)
 

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