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Antwi, Effah Kwabena, John Boakye-Danquah, Stephen Boahen Asabere, Gerald A. B. Yiran, Seyram Kofi Loh, Kwabena Gyekye Awere, Felix K. Abagale, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Emmanuel Morgan Attua, and Alex Barimah Owusu. "Land Use and Landscape Structural Changes in the Ecoregions of Ghana." Journal of Disaster Research 9, no. 4 (August 1, 2014): 452–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0452.

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In recent years, land use (LU) and landscape structure in ecoregions around the world have been faced with enormous pressures, from rapid population growth to urban sprawl. A preliminary account of changes in land cover (LC) and landscape structure in the ecoregions of Ghana is missing from the academic and research literature. The study therefore provides a preliminary assessment of the changing LU and landscape structure in the ecoregions of Ghana, identifying the causes and assessing their impact on land-based resources, and on urban and agricultural development. LU/LC maps produced from 30 m resolution Landsat TM5 in 1990 and ETM+ in 2000 were classified into dominant land cover types (LCTs) and used to survey the changing landscape of Ghana. LC-changemap preparation was done with change detection extension “Veränderung” (v3) in an ArcGIS 10.1 environment. At the class level, Patch Analyst version 5.1 was used to calculate land use (LU) statistics and to provide landscape metrics for LU maps extracted from the satellite imagery. The results showed that commonly observed LCCs in the ecoregions of Ghana include conversion of natural forest land to various forms of cultivated lands, settlements, and open land, particularly in closed and open forest and savannah woodland. The dominant LU types in the ecoregions of Ghana are arable lands, which increased by 6168.98 km2. Forest and plantation LCTs decreased in area and were replaced by agricultural land, forest garden, and open land. Afforestation rarely occurred except in the rainforests. The mean patch size (MPS), ameasure of fragmentation, was generally reduced consistently from 1990 to 2000 in all the ecoregions. Similar results that indicated increased fragmentation were an increased number of patches (NumP) and the Shannon diversity index (SDI). Habitat shape complexity inferred from mean shape index (MSI) decreased in all ecoregions except for rainforest and wet evergreen. The SDI and Shannon evenness index (SEI) showed that habitat diversity was highest in the coastal savannah and the deciduous forest ecoregions. The main drivers of changes in the LUs and landscape structure are demand for land and land-based natural resources to support competing livelihoods and developmental activities in the different ecoregions.

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Appiah, Divine Odame, Felix Asante, and Bernice Nketiah. "Perspectives on Agricultural Land Use Conversion and Food Security in Rural Ghana." Sci 1, no. 1 (March 18, 2019): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sci1010014.v1.

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Rapid peri-urbanization has resulted in increasing demand for and pressure on peri-urban lands at the expense of agricultural lands. Households’ decision to convert from agricultural land uses to residential and commercial land uses is driven by a myriad of factors, ranging from social to economic, in the Asante-Akim South district of the Asante region, Ghana. The paper examined the effects of agricultural land use trade-off on food production in the district. Using a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods, 115 household respondents were proportionately sampled from three selected communities in the district, for the collection of data through the administration of questionnaires. The data were subjected to the Pearson’s chi-square, embedded in the SPSS V.16, to test for association among the variables. We report that the increasing rate of agricultural land uses conversions was as a result of increasing demand for residential and commercial land usage at the expense of agricultural land uses. Converting prime agricultural lands into other land uses was seen as profitable to agricultural expansion. A re-examination of the district land use plans by the Ghanaian Physical (Town and Country) Planning Department in tandem with the Lands Commission is therefore recommended.

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Grega, Libor, and Emmanuel Kofi Ankomah. "The Environmental Effect of Land Use in the Tenure Systems in Ghana." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 64, no. 6 (2016): 1889–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201664061889.

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This paper examines the land tenure system in Ghana and its impact on the environment. The main forms of land tenure systems are explained and the positive and negative impacts of each of these forms on the environment analysed. Specific attention is devoted to deforestation and soil depletion. The complex problems of land acquisition in Ghana, and the inherent insecurity effects on farming, which is considered to be the most important economic activity in the rural areas are examined. The analyses and the result proved that the insecurity of land tenure system has a direct relationship with the environment. Cross-sectional data analyses establishes that traditional forms of land acquisitions, ownership and land use form part of the main causes of environmental degradation in Ghana.

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Braimoh, A. K. "Seasonal migration and land-use change in Ghana." Land Degradation & Development 15, no. 1 (January 2004): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ldr.588.

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Poku-Boansi, Michael, and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah. "Land use and urban travel in Kumasi, Ghana." GeoJournal 83, no. 3 (June 27, 2017): 563–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-017-9786-7.

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Baffour Awuah, Kwasi Gyau, Felix Nikoi Hammond, Jessica Elizabeth Lamond, and Colin Booth. "Benefits of urban land use planning in Ghana." Geoforum 51 (January 2014): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.019.

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Alabi, Joshua, Goski Alabi, and Ibrahim Mohammed. "Developing A Framework For Land Management Based On Community Involvement In Ghana." International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS) 18, no. 4 (September 11, 2014): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ijmis.v18i4.8858.

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Since the discovery of oil in commercial quantities in the Western Region of Ghana and the attendant media reports of some traditional leaders rushing to sell land, there has been a renewed interest in land management in the area. This paper investigated the involvement of traditional leaders in land management in the Western Region of Ghana and explored with participants possible ways of enhancing land management in Ghana. The study was conducted in the Districts and Municipal Assemblies along the coast of the Weston Region of Ghana using fifteen traditional leaders or Chiefs as the participants. A desk review of national policy documents on land management accompanied by interviews with the traditional leaders, show that Ghana abounds with laws and policies on land management as well as land use plans that provide for the involvement of traditional leaders. However, the results from our interviews with the selected traditional leaders mandated to be custodians of customary lands and by extension agents of lands management suggest that 92% are either unaware of the laws, policies, and plans or have limited knowledge about them. As a direct consequence of the lack of knowledge or paucity of knowledge about land use plans, these traditional leaders are not able to discharge rightfully their duty. The paper therefore concludes that traditional leaders require education on the national framework for land management in order to enhance their capacity for land management. It is therefore recommended that a centre should be established to provide relevant training and education to traditional leaders on land administration and management issues on a continual basis in the form of non-formal education.

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Aidoo, Kenneth, Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Kofi Asare, Comfort Gyasiwaa Botchway, and Samuel Fosuhene. "Mapping Evapotranspiration of Agricultural Areas in Ghana." Scientific World Journal 2021 (April 17, 2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8878631.

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Climate change is having an adverse effect on the environment especially in sub-Sahara Africa, where capacity for natural resource management such as water is very low. The scope of the effect on land use types have to be estimated to inform proper remedy. A combined estimation of transpiration and evaporation from plants and soil is critical to determine annual water requirement for different land use. Evapotranspiration (ET) is a major component in the world hydrological cycle, and understanding its spatial dimensions is critical in evaluating the effects it has on regional land use. A measure of this component is challenging due to variation in rainfall and environmental changes. The mapping evapotranspiration with high resolution and internalized calibration (METRIC) method is employed to create evapotranspiration map for land use, using remotely sensed data by satellite, processed, and analyzed in ArcGIS. Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) was related to the availability of water for vegetation on different land use, and the results indicate a high evapotranspiration for vegetated land use with high NDVI than land use with low NDVI.

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Braimoh, Ademola K. "Agricultural land-use change during economic reforms in Ghana." Land Use Policy 26, no. 3 (July 2009): 763–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.10.006.

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Mintah, Kwabena, Kingsley Tetteh Baako, Godwin Kavaarpuo, and Gideon Kwame Otchere. "Skin lands in Ghana and application of blockchain technology for acquisition and title registration." Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 12, no. 2 (May 4, 2020): 147–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jppel-12-2019-0062.

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Purpose The land sector in Ghana, particularly skin lands acquisition and title registration are fraught with several issues including unreliable record-keeping systems and land encroachments. The paper explores the potential of blockchain application in skin lands acquisition and title registration in Ghana with the aim of developing a blockchain-enabled framework for land acquisition. The purpose of this paper is to use the framework as a tool towards solving some of the loopholes in the process that leads to numerous issues bedeviling the current system. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a systematic literature review approach fused with informal discussions with key informants and leverages on the researchers’ own experiences to conceptualize blockchain application in skin lands acquisition in Ghana. Findings Problems bedeviling skin lands acquisition and title registration emanated from the issuance of allocation notes, payment of kola money and use of a physical ledger to document land transactions. As a result, the developed framework was designed to respond to these issues and deal with the problems. As the proposed blockchain framework would be a public register, it was argued that information on all transactions on a specific parcel of land could be available to the public in real-time. This enhances transparency and possibly resolves the issue of encroachments and indeterminate land boundaries because stakeholders can determine rightful owners of land parcels before initiating transactions. Practical implications Practically, blockchain technology has the potential to deal with the numerous issues affecting the smooth operation of skin lands acquisition and title registration in Ghana. Once the enumerated issues are resolved, there will be certainty of title to and ownership of land and property to drive investments because lenders could more easily ascertain owners of land parcels that could be used as collateral for securing loans. Similarly, property developers and land purchasers could easily identify rightful owners for land transactions. The government would be able to identify owners for land and property taxation. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on blockchain and application to land acquisition and title registration with a focus on a specific customary land ownership system.

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Kleemann, Janina, Justice Nana Inkoom, Michael Thiel, Sangeetha Shankar, Sven Lautenbach, and Christine Fürst. "Peri-urban land use pattern and its relation to land use planning in Ghana, West Africa." Landscape and Urban Planning 165 (September 2017): 280–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.004.

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Pabi, Opoku. "Understanding land-use/cover change process for land and environmental resources use management policy in Ghana." GeoJournal 68, no. 4 (July 10, 2007): 369–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-007-9090-z.

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Isaac, M. E., and P. Matous. "Social network ties predict land use diversity and land use change: a case study in Ghana." Regional Environmental Change 17, no. 6 (April 18, 2017): 1823–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1151-3.

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Boamah, Nicholas Addai. "Land use controls and residential land values in the Offinso South municipality, Ghana." Land Use Policy 33 (July 2013): 111–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.12.016.

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Asare, Austin, Hans Thodsen, Mary Antwi, Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong, and Peter O. Sanful. "Land Use and Land Cover changes in Lake Bosumtwi Watershed, Ghana (West Africa)." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 23 (August 2021): 100536. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100536.

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APPIAH, Divine Odame, Eric Kwabena FORKUO, and John Tiah BUGRI. "Land Use Conversion Probabilities in a Peri-Urban District of Ghana." Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 03, no. 03 (September 2015): 1550026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2345748115500268.

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This paper is a critical review, which synthesizes the theory-application linkage of peri-urban land use and land cover changes (LULCC) using the Bosomtwe District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana as the case. From abstractive thinking to empirical possibility, we conjecture human decisions within agent-based modeling (ABM) perspective. The key question the paper has tried to answer is: what are the probable future land use conversion and modification potentials in the district? LULCC in peri-urban areas respond to social and biophysical dynamics. These control spatial distribution of populations, infrastructure, and the space economy. Under systemic laxity of controls, peri-urban land uses deviate from effective land use plans.

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Ebenezer, Boakye, K. Anornu Geophery, A. Quaye-Ballard Jonathan, and A. Donkor Emmanuel. "Land use change and sediment yield studies in Ghana: Review." Journal of Geography and Regional Planning 11, no. 9 (September 30, 2018): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/jgrp2018.0707.

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Yeboah, E., and R. A. Oppong. "Chiefs, changing trust relations and land use planning in Ghana." Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana) 35, no. 3 (April 12, 2016): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/just.v35i3.6.

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Quaye, Amos K., Charles A. S. Hall, and Valerie A. Luzadis. "Agricultural land use efficiency and food crop production in Ghana." Environment, Development and Sustainability 12, no. 6 (February 10, 2010): 967–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-010-9234-z.

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Yeboah, Eric, and David Shaw. "Customary land tenure practices in Ghana: examining the relationship with land-use planning delivery." International Development Planning Review 35, no. 1 (January 2013): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2013.3.

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Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful, Michael Osei Asibey, and Yaa Asuamah Gyedu-Pensang. "Urban land use planning in Ghana: Navigating complex coalescence of land ownership and administration." Land Use Policy 99 (December 2020): 105054. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105054.

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Tachie-Obeng, E., Monica Idinoba, and J. Nkem. "Simulation of forest vulnerability to land use land cover and climate change in Ghana." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, no. 30 (February 1, 2009): 302020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/30/302020.

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Mensah, Bismark, Isaac Obeng Darkwa, Esther Yamoaba Bonful, Moses Bangfunourteru Tuu, Mohammed Sanda, and Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu. "Patterns of Land Use Activities in Ghana’s Secondary Cities." Ghana Journal of Geography 12, no. 2 (December 17, 2020): 84–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjg.v12i2.4.

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Ghana is rapidly urbanizing. This urbanization has resulted in villages growing into towns and towns into urbanized areas. Theories and models have been employed to explain the internal structure of urban areas, especially, with respect to land use variations. These models started with the classical urban land use models in America. Urban scholars in Africa have struggled to fit the development of the African cities into these classical models. They have therefore called for African scholars to develop models for urban land use in Africa. This paper sought to identify the common patterns of land use activities which shape the internal structure of Ghana’s secondary cities. The study employed Geographic Information System (GIS) as a major tool of analysis in explaining the patterns in urban areas. This is augmented with in-depth ground observations of the study areas. The findings of the study showed the absence of homogeneity in most of the sectors and undefined industrial zones as contradictions to the classical models. The study further revealed that residential zones were not fully occupied by either lower income, middle income, or higher income residence. The income groups may only dominate in a given sector. Based on the findings, a common pattern is proposed to represent the land uses within the selected secondary cities in Ghana.

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Berry, Sara. "Struggles over Land and Authority in Africa." African Studies Review 60, no. 3 (October 4, 2017): 105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2017.96.

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Abstract:This article reviews major changes in policies and practices of land allocation and use in sub-Saharan Africa since ca 1990, using two comparative case studies to illustrate their implications for relations between local and national authority. One case contrasts Ghana, where intense local conflicts over land and authority did not translate into political conflict at the national level, with Côte d’Ivoire, where they did. The other compares political strategies and the influence of traditional chiefs in Ghana and South Africa.

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Koo, Hongmi, Janina Kleemann, and Christine Fürst. "Integrating Ecosystem Services into Land-Use Modeling to Assess the Effects of Future Land-Use Strategies in Northern Ghana." Land 9, no. 10 (October 8, 2020): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9100379.

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In West Africa, where the majority of the population relies on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture, regionally adapted agricultural land-use planning is increasingly important to cope with growing demand for land-use products and intensifying climate variability. As an approach to identify effective future land-use strategies, this study applied spatially explicit modeling that addresses the spatial connectivity between the provision of ecosystem services and agricultural land-use systems. Considering that the status of ecosystem services varies with the perception of stakeholders, local knowledge, and characteristics of a case study area, two adjoining districts in northern Ghana were integrated into an assessment process of land-use strategies. Based on agricultural land-management options that were identified together with the local stakeholders, 75 future land-use strategies as combinations of multiple agricultural practices were elaborated. Potential impacts of the developed land-use strategies on ecosystem services and land-use patterns were assessed in a modeling platform that combines Geographic Information System (GIS) and Cellular Automaton (CA) modules. Modeled results were used to identify best land-use strategies that could deliver multiple ecosystem services most effectively. Then, local perception was applied to determine the feasibility of the best land-use strategies in practice. The results presented the different extent of trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services delivered by future land-use strategies and their different feasibility depending on the district. Apart from the fact that findings were context-specific and scale-dependent, this study revealed that the integration of different local characteristics and local perceptions to spatially explicit ecosystem service assessment is beneficial for determining locally tailored recommendations for future agricultural land-use planning.

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Odai, Samuel N., Biola K. Badmos, Sampson K. Agodzo, Samuel S. Guug, and Grace B. Villamor. "Examining Agricultural Land-use/Cover Change Options in Rural Northern Ghana." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies 8, no. 2 (2014): 15–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2329-1621/cgp/v08i02/59382.

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Baffour Awuah, Kwasi Gyau, and Felix Nikoi Hammond. "Determinants of low land use planning regulation compliance rate in Ghana." Habitat International 41 (January 2014): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.06.002.

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Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful, and Rockson Niminga-Beka. "Urbanisation in Ghana: Residential land use under siege in Kumasi central." Cities 60 (February 2017): 388–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2016.10.011.

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Koranteng, Addo, Isaac Adu-Poku, Emmanuel Donkor, and Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki. "Geospatial assessment of land use and land cover dynamics in the mid-zone of Ghana." Folia Forestalia Polonica 62, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 288–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2020-0028.

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AbstractLand use and land cover (LULC) terrain in Ghana has undergone profound changes over the past years emanating mainly from anthropogenic activities, which have impacted countrywide and sub-regional environment. This study is a comprehensive analysis via integrated approach of geospatial procedures such as Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) of past, present and future LULC from satellite imagery covering Ghana’s Ashanti regional capital (Kumasi) and surrounding districts. Multi-temporal satellite imagery data sets of four different years, 1990 (Landsat TM), 2000 (Landsat ETM+), 2010 (Alos and Disaster Monitoring Constellation-DMC) and 2020 (SENTINEL), spanning over a 30-year period were mapped. Five major LULC categories – Closed Forest, Open Forest, Agriculture, Built-up and Water – were delineated premised on the prevailing geographical settings, field study and remote sensing data. Markov Cellular Automata modelling was applied to predict the probable LULC change consequence for the next 20 years (2040). The study revealed that both Open Forest and Agriculture class categories decreased 51.98 to 38.82 and 27.48 to 20.11, respectively. Meanwhile, Built-up class increased from 4.8% to 24.8% (over 500% increment from 1990 to 2020). Rapid urbanization caused the depletion of forest cover and conversion of farmlands into human settlements. The 2040 forecast map showed an upward increment in the Built-up area up to 35.2% at the expense of other LULC class categories. This trend from the past to the forecasted future would demand that judicious LULC resolutions have to be made to keep Ghana’s forest cover, provide arable land for farming activities and alleviate the effects of climate change.

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Appiah, Divine O., John T. Bugri, Eric K. Forkuo, and Sampson Yamba. "Agricultural and Forest Land Use Potential for REDD+ among Smallholder Land Users in Rural Ghana." International Journal of Forestry Research 2016 (2016): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7218305.

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Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation with other benefits (REDD+) mechanism is supposed to address the reversal of forest-based land degradation, conservation of existing carbon stocks, and enhancement of carbon sequestration. The Bosomtwe District is predominantly agrarian with potentials for climate change mitigation through REDD+ mechanism among smallholder farmers. The limited knowledge and practices of this strategy among farmers are limiting potentials of mitigating climate change. This paper assesses the REDD+ potentials among smallholder farmers in the district. Using a triangulation of quantitative and qualitative design, 152 farmer-respondents were purposively sampled and interviewed, using snowballing method from 12 communities. Quantitative data gathered were subjected to the tools of contingency and frequencies analysis, embedded in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) v.16. The qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results indicate that respondents have knowledge of REDD+ but not the intended benefit sharing regimes that can accrue to the smallholder farmers. Farmers’ willingness to practice REDD+ will be based on the motivation and incentive potentials of the strategies. The Forestry Services Division should promote the practice of REDD+ among smallholder farmers through education, to whip and sustain interest in the strategy.

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Abass, Kabila, Kwadwo Afriyie, and Razak M. Gyasi. "From green to grey: the dynamics of land use/land cover change in urban Ghana." Landscape Research 44, no. 8 (December 16, 2018): 909–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1552251.

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Boamah, Nicholas Addai, John Kwabena Bediako Nelson, and Charles Gyimah. "The impact of land use regulations on residential land values in the Wa municipality, Ghana." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 27, no. 3 (February 15, 2012): 349–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9268-7.

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Rhebergen, Tiemen, Thomas Fairhurst, Shamie Zingore, Myles Fisher, Thomas Oberthür, and Anthony Whitbread. "Climate, soil and land-use based land suitability evaluation for oil palm production in Ghana." European Journal of Agronomy 81 (November 2016): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2016.08.004.

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Koranteng, Addo, and Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki. "Modelling forest loss and other land use change dynamics in Ashanti Region of Ghana." Folia Forestalia Polonica 57, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ffp-2015-0010.

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Abstract Forest losses amid land use dynamics have become issues of outermost concern in the light of climate change phenomenon which has captivated the world’s attention. It is imperative to monitor land use change and to forecast forms of future land use change on a temporal and spatial basis. The main thrust of this study is to assess land use change in the lower half of the Ashanti Region of Ghana within a 40 year period. The analysis of land use change uses a combination method in Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS). Cellular Automata and Markov Chain (Cellular Automata-Markov) are utilized to predict for land use land cover (LULC) change for 2020 and 2030. The processes used include: (i) a data pre-processing (geometric corrections, radiometric corrections, subset creation and image enhancement) of epoch Landsat images acquired in 1990, 2000, and Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) 2010; (ii) classification of multispectral imagery (iii) Change detection mapping (iv) using Cellular Automata-Markov to generate land use change in the next 20 years. The results illustrate that in years 2020 to 2030 in the foreseeable future, there will an upsurge in built up areas, while a decline in agricultural land use is envisaged. Agricultural land use would still be the dominant land use type. Forests would be drastically reduced from close to 50% in 1990 to just fewer than 10% in 2030. Land use decision making must be very circumspect, especially in an era where Ghana has opted to take advantage of REDD+. Studies such as this provide vital pieces of information which may be used to monitor, direct and influence land use change to a more beneficial and sustainable manner

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Dambeebo, Daniel, and Chernor A. Jalloh. "Sustainable Urban Development and Land Use Management: Wa Municipality in Perspective, Ghana." Journal of Sustainable Development 11, no. 5 (September 28, 2018): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v11n5p235.

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Land use planning is one of the effective ways of achieving overall sustainable physical development especially, in urban areas. Various stakeholders in Ghana such as government agencies are therefore, responsible for the development and enforcement of national and local plans that specifies land areas for residential, industrial, transport and recreational facilities towards achieving sustainable development. Empirical literature within the Wa Municipality is not clear on weather enforcement and/or compliance pose as a challenge to sustainable urban development. The main objective of this study was therefore, to assess the physical development and land use planning guidelines in the Wa Municipality and analyse people compliance for sustainable land management. Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. A questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 173 households in the Wa Municipality. Besides, heads of three institutions responsible for enforcing planning guidelines were interviewed. The results maintained that physical development planning guidelines are there to guide urban development in the Wa Municipality, but enforcement and effective compliance has been weak. Also, demographic and economic variables of the respondents as well as the lack of institutional capacity are the factors responsible for low levels of compliance. The non-compliance with planning guidelines contributes to haphazard physical development. This implies that the existence of clear planning guidelines is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sustainable urban land management. It is therefore, recommended that appropriate intervention through effective education for the general public as well as resource allocation to the enforcement institutions. This will facilitate the achievement of sustainable urban land management in the Wa Municipality.

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Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel. "Climate Change and Indigenous Akan Religio-Cultural Practices." Worldviews 23, no. 1 (January 30, 2019): 59–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02301007.

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AbstractMost national and international discussions have not seriously recognized the role religio-cultural practices of indigenous Africans can play in mitigating the effects of climate change. This paper, examines the contribution the indigenous people can make towards the mitigation of the effects of climate change, using the Akan of Ghana as a case study. Mostly, indigenous people who are the major stakeholders in land use in Ghana are marginalized when policies aimed at reducing environmental degradation are made. This has resulted in low gains in the fight against environmental degradation despite several interventions in Ghana. A recent report puts Ghana into a net-emitter of GHG bracket. This means the country has to embark on a Low Carbon Development Strategy to address the situation. This paper, therefore argues that unless indigenous people—major stakeholders of land use—are duly involved; it will be difficult to address the effects of climate change in Ghana.

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Appiah, Divine Odame, Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo, and Gabriel Eshun. "Arable and forest land user rent in a peri-urban district, Ghana." GeoJournal 85, no. 6 (July 1, 2019): 1621–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-019-10044-y.

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Abstract Land-use policies meant to mitigate deforestation activities in Ghana will have to consider the heterogeneity of the drivers of arable and forest land degradation. This would help avoid the one-size fits all approach to solving this problem. The urgency for this realisation is premised on the recent increasing monetary incentive to convert arable and forest land to other land uses in peri-urban Ghana. This study hypothesised that there is no significant relationship between land rent and the conversion probability from arable and forest land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses in Bosomtwe, a peri-urban district in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Four-hundred and one usufruct or land-owning households and individual landowners participated through a three-stage sampling procedure. The results indicated a significant relationship between higher land rent and conversion probability from arable land to other land uses such as commercial, industrial and residential land uses. Specifically, receiving land rent above GH¢400 (OR = 1.979) predicted the outcome variable in all three models. Moreover, being a female (OR = 0.612), ageing: 56 and 65 (OR = 2.158) and 76 and above (OR = 11.781), traders/food vendors (OR = 0.423) and widows (OR = 2.050) had some odds of predicting the outcome variable. The study recommends a reformation of government land use conversion policies and decisions in collaboration with landowners, to include parameters which assess the effect and benefits of land conversion decisions on biodiversity before leasing out land rights.

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Obodai, Josephine, Kwaku Amaning Adjei, Samuel Nii Odai, and Mawuli Lumor. "Land use/land cover dynamics using landsat data in a gold mining basin-the Ankobra, Ghana." Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 13 (January 2019): 247–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2018.10.007.

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Toure, Sory I., Douglas A. Stow, Keith Clarke, and John Weeks. "Patterns of land cover and land use change within the two major metropolitan areas of Ghana." Geocarto International 35, no. 2 (October 1, 2018): 209–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10106049.2018.1516244.

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Attua, Emmanuel M., Jennifer Ayamga, and Opoku Pabi. "Relating land use and land cover to surface water quality in the Densu River basin, Ghana." International Journal of River Basin Management 12, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2014.880711.

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Siiba, Alhassan, Ellis Adjei Adams, and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah. "Chieftaincy and sustainable urban land use planning in Yendi, Ghana: Towards congruence." Cities 73 (March 2018): 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.015.

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Schueler, Vivian, Tobias Kuemmerle, and Hilmar Schröder. "Impacts of Surface Gold Mining on Land Use Systems in Western Ghana." AMBIO 40, no. 5 (March 18, 2011): 528–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0141-9.

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Anima Gyimah, Rita Akosua, Anthony Yaw Karikari, Charles Gyamfi, Patricia Asantewaa-Tannor, and Geophrey Kwame Anornu. "Spatial evaluation of land use variability on water quality of the Densu Basin, Ghana." Water Supply 20, no. 8 (August 13, 2020): 3000–3013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2020.187.

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Abstract The effect of different land use types on the physicochemical water quality of a semi-arid coastal basin is examined. From nine sites, a comprehensive sampling campaign was executed during October 2018 to January 2019. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to determine the relationship between water quality characteristics and land use types at the sub-basin and buffer-zone scales. The one-way ANOVA test indicated that most of the parameters are significantly different (p < 0.05) among the sampling sites with the exception of pH, total hardness (TH), nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N), ammonia-nitrogen (NH3-N), dissolved oxygen (DO), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and iron (Fe). Agriculture and built-up/bare land had a positive relationship with turbidity, TSS, conductivity and Fe within 50 m and 150 m buffer zones. Built-up/bare land showed a positive relationship with turbidity, TSS and Cl at the sub-basin scale. Forest cover correlated negatively with water quality although not significantly. Grassland correlated significantly with temperature, Cl and total hardness. Results of the multiple regression analysis indicate that land use types within the riparian buffer zones had greater impact on water quality than at the sub-basin scale. This work provides essential information for land use planners and water managers towards sustainable water resources management.

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Asaaga, Festus A. "Building on “Traditional” Land Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Rural Ghana: Adaptive or Anachronistic?" Land 10, no. 2 (February 2, 2021): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10020143.

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Despite the ongoing land administration reforms being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana, as a viable pathway to achieve tenure security and greater efficiency in land administration, the subject of land dispute resolution has received relatively less attention. Whereas customary tenure institutions play a central role in land administration (controlling ~80% of all land in Ghana), they remain at the fringes of the formal land dispute adjudicatory process. Recognising the pivotal role of traditional institutions as development agents and potential vehicles for promoting good land governance, recent discourses on land tenure have geared toward mainstreaming traditional land dispute institutions into the architecture of the formal judicial process via alternative dispute resolution pathways. Yet, little is known, at least empirically, as to the operations of traditional dispute resolution institutions in the contemporary context. This study therefore explores the importance of traditional dispute resolution institutions in the management of land-related disputes in southcentral and western Ghana, drawing on data collated from 380 farming households operating 746 plots. The results show that contrary to the conventional thinking that traditional institutions are anachronistic and not fit for purpose, they remain strong and a preferred forum for land dispute resolution (proving resilient and adaptable), given the changing socio-economic and tenurial conditions. Yet, these forums have differing implications for different actors within the customary spheres accessing them. The results highlight practical ways for incorporating traditional dispute resolution in the overall land governance setup in Ghana and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa. This has implications for redesigning context-specific and appropriate land-use policy interventions that address local land dispute resolution.

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Koranteng, Addo, Isaac Adu-Poku, and Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki. "Drivers of land use change and carbon mapping in the savannah area of Ghana." Folia Forestalia Polonica 59, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 287–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ffp-2017-0031.

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Abstract Land-use and land-cover change in both forest reserves and off-reserves is a critical issue in sub Saharan Africa. Deforestation and conversion of forest land to agricultural land continue to be one of the major environmental problems in Africa, and for that matter, Ghana cannot be exceptional; and its resultant effect is the loss in the ecological integrity and the quality of forests, resulting in carbon loss and the resultant climate change effects (FAO 2016). The study area covers the Community Resource Management Areas (CREMA) of the Mole National Park in Ghana, and this study reveals that the area is well endowed with a diverse composition and structure of woodland including dense, open and riverine stretches, which – under the national definition of forest – qualifies as forest. The results reveal that there had been an annual deforestation rate of 0.11% over the period of review. It was concluded from the study that woodland had high carbon stocks with an average carbon of 80 tC/ha, the highest being 194 tC/ha and the lowest being 7 tC/ha, which was recorded in the dense woodland and grassland respectively. The fluxes within the land sector in the study area are moderate and the potential of the area to qualify for as REDD+ is very high. However, the drivers of deforestation, especially bush fires and illegal timber harvesting, are challenges that need to be addressed.

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Appiah, Divine, Eric Forkuo, John Bugri, and Theresa Apreku. "Geospatial Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Transitions from 1986–2014 in a Peri-Urban Ghana." Geosciences 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences7040125.

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Antwi-Agyei, Philip, Felix Kpenekuu, Jonathan N. Hogarh, Kwasi Obiri-Danso, Robert C. Abaidoo, Erik Jeppesen, and Mathias Neumann Andersen. "Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Owabi Reservoir Catchment, Ghana: Implications for Livelihoods and Management." Geosciences 9, no. 7 (June 28, 2019): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9070286.

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Reservoir catchments in Ghana have undergone significant changes in recent years with major implications for socio-economic development and local livelihoods. We studied land use and land cover changes and their impacts on livelihoods in the Owabi reservoir catchment from 1970 to 2014 using Landsat, ERDAS Imagine and Arc Geographic Information System (ArcGIS 10.2) software supplemented with participatory approaches including focus group discussions, key informant interviews and questionnaire surveys with 400 households. Our results showed that, since 1970, 24.6% of high-density forests and 15.8% of sparse forests have disappeared, while the built-up area has increased from 9.8% to 56.6%. Additionally, the proportion of bare soil (areas that do not have vegetation cover due to forest clearing and other anthropogenic activities) has increased, while the areas of waterbodies have declined. We identified urbanisation and lack of community involvement in catchment management as the key factors driving the land cover changes that have adversely affected the livelihoods of the local fringe communities. This study highlights the threats from urbanisation to land cover changes and identifies the key drivers of land use change. For effective and sustainable management of natural resources, the local communities should be more actively involved in the decision-making process regarding the management of their individual catchments.

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Kusimi, John Manyimadin. "Assessing land use and land cover change in the Wassa West District of Ghana using remote sensing." GeoJournal 71, no. 4 (April 2008): 249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-008-9172-6.

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Crook, Stephen E. S., Li An, John R. Weeks, and Douglas A. Stow. "Latent Trajectory Modeling of Spatiotemporal Relationships Between Land Cover and Land Use, Socioeconomics, and Obesity in Ghana." Spatial Demography 4, no. 3 (May 18, 2016): 221–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40980-016-0024-6.

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Biney, Ernest, and Ebenezer Boakye. "Urban sprawl and its impact on land use land cover dynamics of Sekondi-Takoradi metropolitan assembly, Ghana." Environmental Challenges 4 (August 2021): 100168. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100168.

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