Participation, Innovative Approaches and Customary Cadastres: A Practical Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

K.O. Asiama; R.M. Bennett; J.A. Zevenbergen

Participation, Innovative Approaches and Customary Cadastres: A Practical Experiment in Nanton, Ghana

K.O. Asiama, R.M. Bennett, J.A. Zevenbergen

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The dearth of land information on customary lands limits the development and application of land consolidation. This paper presents and discusses the results of an experiment carried out to test the potential of participatory land administration applied on customary lands in support of land consolidation. The concept of Participatory Land Administration (PLA) which is developed in the context of the evolution of crowdsourced, volunteered, and participatory approaches provides new insights into neogeography and neocadastre, and fit-for-purpose and pro-poor land administration. The experiment’s area of interest is in Northern Ghana, a village called Nanton, where the local farming community was engaged to develop the process. The study involved collecting land information relating to farms over a two-week period, using a mobile app and an orthophoto, based on PLA. The results show that though PLA can potentially support land consolidation, further investigation is needed on how it can be integrated into the formal land registration system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018
Subtitle of host publication	Land Governance in an Interconnected World : Washington, D.C. March 19-23, 2018
Place of Publication	Washington DC
Publisher	The World Bank
Number of pages	27
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2018
Event	19th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World - The World Bank Building, Washington, United States Duration: 19 Mar 2018 → 23 Mar 2018 Conference number: 19 http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/08/07/land-and-poverty-conference-2018-land-governance-in-an-interconnected-world

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Conference	19th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington
Period	19/03/18 → 23/03/18
Internet address	http://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2017/08/07/land-and-poverty-conference-2018-land-governance-in-an-interconnected-world

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Participation
Land consolidation
Innovative approaches
Land administration
Customary lands

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Asiama, K. O., Bennett, R. M., & Zevenbergen, J. A. (2018). Participation, Innovative Approaches and Customary Cadastres: A Practical Experiment in Nanton, Ghana. In World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World : Washington, D.C. March 19-23, 2018 The World Bank. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324056441_Participation_Innovative_Approaches_and_Customary_Cadastres_A_Practical_Experiment_in_Nanton_Ghana

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Asiama, KO, Bennett, RM & Zevenbergen, JA 2018, Participation, Innovative Approaches and Customary Cadastres: A Practical Experiment in Nanton, Ghana. in World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World : Washington, D.C. March 19-23, 2018. The World Bank, Washington DC, 19th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 19/03/18. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324056441_Participation_Innovative_Approaches_and_Customary_Cadastres_A_Practical_Experiment_in_Nanton_Ghana>

Participation, Innovative Approaches and Customary Cadastres: A Practical Experiment in Nanton, Ghana. / Asiama, K.O.; Bennett, R.M.; Zevenbergen, J.A.
World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World : Washington, D.C. March 19-23, 2018. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2018.

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