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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2023Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Western Africa, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, TogoCe document montre comment la structure globale du PAM pour la transformation des systèmes alimentaires est adaptée au contexte de la région de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et Centrale.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2021Africa, Congo, Gabon, Western Africa, Ghana, Liberia
Benefit-sharing agreements and community contracts are intended to ensure affected communities are involved in and benefit from the management of forest resources, but communities have often been left feeling short-changed.
This briefing note provides an overview of the functioning of community benefit sharing and community contracting in the Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana and Liberia, through ClientEarth’s experience. It also draws out key considerations on benefit sharing and community contracting mechanisms.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2021Africa, Congo, Gabon, Western Africa, Ghana, Liberia
Le partage des bénéfices et les contrats communautaires visent à garantir aux communautés affectées le moyen d’être impliquées et de tirer des avantages de la gestion des ressources forestières. En pratique, toutefois, les communautés se sentent souvent lésées sur ces points.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2020Cameroon, Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa
The paper critically engages with sustainable development goal targets (SDG-2- Target 2.3; SDG-5) to examine how and why large-scale agricultural land acquisitions modify the social relations of women’s food access. The study draws from impacts of various plantation schemes in Cameroon and Ghana. It argues that the framing of the SDG-2 appears to co-exist alongside promotion of corporate-led agricultural investment.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2017Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
Large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) impact women: loss of rights and access to land, water resources, fuel wood, adequate shelter, compensation and livelihood. The study looks at three sub-Saharan African countries (Cameroon, Ghana and Uganda) each having different land tenure regimes. Since land is vital for the survival of rural dwellers especially women, the study recommends that laws and policies governing the process of LSLA stress a mandatory participatory approach that includes women. There is urgent need to revalorize national laws to mainstream women’s land rights.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2010Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Peru, Vietnam
This book explores the relationship between gender and land, the gendered implications of globalisation on social relations and resource control, and the workings of global capital. Its central focus is examination of globalisation and how the associated changes in land use and tenure affect rural women. A parallel current is people’s resistance to global forces, frequently demonstrated through insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2005Brazil, Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam
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Land Use Policy Volume 95
Peer-reviewed publicationJune, 2020Central African Republic, GhanaSupport for large scale agricultural investments in Africa has been mainly premised on their employment prospects for local populations. However, despite earlier calls by Tania Li to centre labour in the land grabs debate, labour is generally invisible in both mainstream policy and academic research. This paper, through a governance lens, draws attention to the implications of the global land rush on wage labour.
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Volume 9 Issue 11
Peer-reviewed publicationNovember, 2020Central African Republic, Ghana, NorwayDevelopment practice over recent years in much of Africa prioritized formalization of land policies deemed to enhance better handling and use of land as an asset for social development. Following this trend, land reform policy in Ghana was based on a pluralistic legal system in which both the customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist by law. The primary research question for this study was the following: What implications emerge when customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist in law?
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Volume 9 Issue 8
Peer-reviewed publicationAugust, 2020Benin, Central African Republic, Ghana, Malawi, Togo, Tanzania, South Africa, Southern AfricaUnited Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserves strive for a harmonious interaction between humans and nature. As landscapes provide suitable units to mutually address matters of conservation and sustainable development, this study aims to explore the potential and realized contribution of biosphere reserves for landscape governance and management. We emphasize the role of stakeholder participation and cooperation as an overarching condition for integrated landscape approaches.
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