Impacts of large-scale land holdings on Fulani pastoralists’ in the Agogo Traditional Area of Ghana

Bukari, Kaderi Noagah

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.09.018

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“…Land and tree tenure structures and dynamics still create impediments for forestdependent people and communities to have access and rights to benefit from forestland and forest resources [32,56,108,109]. Contextually, all forests, including naturally occurring trees existing in both reserves and off-reserves in Ghana, are owned by the state for the stools, and the state has all the user rights [30].…”

Section: Land and Tree Tenurementioning

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“…Also, Ghana's tenure structures are complex and lack precision, leading to unfair and inequitable forest resources distribution [43]. The lack of tree and land tenure security pose several constraints and threats promoting unsustainable forestland and forest resources use [56,90,109]. The current forest policies (e.g., Ghana Forest and Wildlife Policy 2012) contain lapses regarding timber tree tenure and ownership, where farmers realize limited benefits from the existing forest policy [96].…”

Section: Land and Tree Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework

Kyere-Boateng

Marek

2021

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Globally, forests provide several functions and services to support humans’ well-being and the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The services that forests provide enable the forest-dependent people and communities to meet their livelihood needs and well-being. Nevertheless, the world’s forests face a twin environmental problem of deforestation and forest degradation (D&FD), resulting in ubiquitous depletion of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services and eventual loss of forest cover. Ghana, like any tropical forest developing country, is not immune to these human-caused D&FD. This paper reviews Ghana’s D&FD driven by a plethora of pressures, despite many forest policies and interventions to ensure sustainable management and forest use. The review is important as Ghana is experiencing an annual D&FD rate of 2%, equivalent to 135,000 hectares loss of forest cover. Although some studies have focused on the causes of D&FD on Ghana’ forests, they failed to show the chain of causal links of drivers that cause D&FD. This review fills the knowledge and practice gap by adopting the Driver-Pressures-State-Impacts-Responses (DPSIR) analytical framework to analyse the literature-based sources of causes D&FD in Ghana. Specifically, the analysis identified agriculture expansion, cocoa farming expansion, illegal logging, illegal mining, population growth and policy failures and lapses as the key drivers of Ghana’s D&FD. The study uses the DPSIR analytical framework to show the chain of causal links that lead to the country’s D&FD and highlights the numerous interventions required to reverse and halt the ubiquitous perpetual trend of D&FD in Ghana. Similar tropical forest countries experiencing D&FD will find the review most useful to curtail the menace.

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Section: Land and Tree Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Land and Tree Tenurementioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework

Kyere-Boateng

Marek

2021

Forests

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“…Forest laws and policy reforms are critically needed to promote effective institutional coordination, increased accountability and transparency, and address the crucial issues that impede land/tree tenure security and provide appropriate benefitsharing mechanisms to manage forest resources sustainably (e.g. see Lund et al, 2012;Akamani et al, 2015;Oduro et al, 2015;Hajjar, 2015;Agyei & Adjei, 2017, Asiyanbi et al, 2017Bukari & Kuusaana, 2018;Fagariba et al, 2018;Satyal, 2018;Kansanga & Luginaah, 2019;Hansen et al, 2015).…”

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“…In Ghana, land ownership could be categorised into three categories: customary ownership, 78%, state or public ownership, 20%, and shared ownership, 2% constituting the country's total land area (Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, 2016). Predominantly lands in Ghana are governed by customary and statutory laws (Bukari & Kuusaana, 2018). While family heads manage the family Figure 1.…”

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“…Enhanced land use cover map of Ghana (Forestry Commission, 2019). lands under the customary ownership, the state holding lands, including some forest reserves, are managed by the Forestry commission [FC] on behalf of the state (Bukari & Kuusaana, 2018). In Ghana, all forest lands except forest plantations owned by private investors are vested in the state on behalf of the citizenry (Dumenu et al, 2014).…”

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Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review

Kyere-Boateng¹,

Marek²,

Huba³

et al. 2021

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Forests provide diverse co-benefits, including livelihoods enhancement, poverty alleviation, and biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services such as climate mitigation. Consequently, Ghana has embraced several global, regional, national, and local forest policy interventions to safeguard its forest resources' sustainable management. However, the forest policy interventions have not adequately addressed the co-benefits issues of forest resources leading to several forest illegalities that drive forest resources degradation and loss. These forest policies and interventions on the ground primarily favour carbon stocks enhancement and sequestration activities for carbon mitigation purposes compared to the benefits, access and rights that forest-dependent people and communities are supposed to derive from forest resources. These perceived injustices in the access and distribution of forest resources have culminated into all forms of forest illegalities driving Ghana's forest resources into massive degradation and loss. Currently, Ghana is experiencing a 2% rate of annual deforestation and forest degradation, which translates into approximately 135,000 ha/year of forest cover loss due to anthropogenic causes. Our review is based on relevant and critical forest documents, and scientific peer-reviewed papers on Ghana's forest policy interventions and dynamics recently published. The information gathered enabled us to highlight the

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The socioeconomic and environmental implications of land grabbing in Sheka zone, southwestern regional state, Ethiopia

Shoddo

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Impacts of large-scale land holdings on Fulani pastoralists’ in the Agogo Traditional Area of Ghana

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework

Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework

Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review

The socioeconomic and environmental implications of land grabbing in Sheka zone, southwestern regional state, Ethiopia

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