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By: Hannah Awadzi, GNA
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments.
The Responsible Investments in Property and Land (RIPL) project seeks to develop…
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Ghana Business News
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources through the Land Administration Project (LAP) is incorporating gender land right issues into the New Draft Land Bill to protect the interest of the vulnerable in society.
“The Draft Bill has made provision…
By: Doreen Andoh
Date: April 28th 2016
Source: Graphic Online
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Ms Barbara Serwaa Asamoah, has underscored the relevance of women’s access to land in national development, describing it as fundamental to women’s economic empowerment and…
By: Stephen Yeboah
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: The Conversation
The interaction between artisanal (small scale) mining and agriculture in Africa still needs to be carefully considered by policy makers to ensure that people’s livelihoods and countries' export revenues aren’t threatened. It’s…
By: Seth J. Bokpe
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Graphic.com
Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.
This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-…
By: AGN Editor
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: All Ghana News
Accra, Sept. 20, GNA - The 2016 International Land Conference has started in Accra to enable participating countries deliberate on land policies and reforms and their impact on food security and poverty reduction in Africa.
The three-…
By: Danica Lo
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Food and Wine
Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.
For many smallholder farmers, staking claim to their own land can be a huge challenge. Landmapp, a tech company based in the Netherlands with a satellite…
By: Gabriella Mulligan
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: BBC News
Farming can be a tough enough business at the best of times, but imagine not being able to prove that the land you farm is even yours.
In Ghana, for example, only 10% of smallholder farmers have any kind of certificate documenting…
By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.
The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an…
By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana
Date: October 4th 2016
Source: GhanaWeb
Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not…
By: Michael Sena Dzansi
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: News Ghana
CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative…
Date: 07 novembre 2016
Source: Commodafrica
Touton, groupe français de négoce en matières premières, a signé le 19 octobre un accord avec la Commission forestière du Ghana afin de combattre la déforestation dans le cadre de la cacaoculture, apprend-on par un communiqué diffusé ce matin. Il s'agit,…