Securing land for forest plantations in Ghana.
1999
Odoom, F. K.
The potential availability of land for forest plantation formation to fill the estimated the wood supplies gap for Ghana's wood industry is assessed. As part of the study, particular attention is paid to the land tenure systems, methods of land acquisition and possible land management models for tree crop establishment in Ghana. The latter include the smallholder system (where the farmer does not own the land), the out-grower system (similar to the smallholder system except that the farmer owns, leases or share crops the land), the lease-back system and taungya. Some of the limitations in customary land holding that relate to the acquisition of land for forest plantation formation are described. It is recommended that landowners be involved in the leasing of land in degraded forest reserves by the Forest Department. The roles of out-grower and lease-back schemes are reviewed in relation to the provision of security of tenure to prospective investors in forest plantations.
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