This blog piece is authored by a land valuation specialist and member of the Ghanaian Institution of Surveyors. It offers the author’s perspectives on potential consequences for the tenure security of different ...

This open access academic article is based on literature review and fieldwork in five communities across three districts of northern Ghana’s semi-arid Upper West Region. The authors observe the commonality of ...

This open access article in the academic journal, ‘Land Use Policy’, reports findings from an ethnographic study and a food and nutrition survey carried out from October 2013 to November 2014 in Tamale, in the ...

Focuses on innovations in recognition, mapping and documentation of legitimate tenure rights by LEGEND and other pilot projects to address problems that resulted from weak due diligence in the planning of ...

Focuses on adjustments to investment plans and more inclusive approaches to business that engage local communities and small-scale farmers that were adopted by the companies involved in pilot projects. Includes key ...

Offers an account of the experiences of three LEGEND projects in addressing land tenure and government issues that emerged in large-scale investment projects which stemmed from insufficient attention to pre-existing ...

Land investments involve the acquisition of land and natural resources, usually by companies, for business ventures, agriculture and other purposes.  This paper presents eight practical lessons on cross-cutting ...

Combining both written analysis and video interviews, this ‘longread’ details the impacts on women’s lives of three approaches developed by IIED partners in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal to reinforce land ...

In many rural areas across sub-Saharan Africa lack of tenure security for women has been exacerbated by rising commercial pressure on land, further aggravated by climate change, urbanisation and population growth. ...

Despite increasing attention in recent years, little evidence has been available on the issue of women, land and corruption in Africa to inform effective policy-making. There has been no compilation of relevant ...