More people registering Title to land

Out of the number, 11, 225 were men with 4,124 being women while 1,899 were institutions. 

This was contained in a keynote address at a stakeholder consultation on land with chiefs and queens in the Upper West Region by the second Land Administration Project (LAP-2) in Wa.

The minister said that was encouraging, especially with the fact that more women were increasingly becoming aware of the need to register their title to land adding that one cardinal way of preventing land disputes was for land owners and lease holders to register their property.

Alhaji Inusah Fuseini said the Land Administration Project under the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, was collaborating with the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (G-CAP) towards the reduction and alleviation of poverty in the northern parts of the country as the area had the potential of producing more food for local consumption and export.

For his part, the Upper West Regional Minister, Dr Avea Nsoh, urged the traditional authorities in the region to jealously guard against the temptation to sell or release large tracts of land to investors and land speculators with tantalising funds.

 He advised them that they should be guided at all times that they hold the land in trust of the people of today and the majority yet unborn.

 The Senior Officer of LAP-2, Mr Kofi Abakah Blankson, explained to the participants that the project had been designed to reduce the time and cost in land transactions, reduce and or prevent the numerous land cases pending in the courts, decentralise land administration and ensure an efficient and sustainable land administration for the country.

 The Social Development and Gender Specialist for LAP-2, Mrs Sarah Antwi-Boasiako, called on the queens to bring their wisdom to bear on the management of land in their traditional areas and to ensure transparency and prudence in all land transactions.

She said LAP-2 considered the active role and involvement of women in land administration as a pre-requisite for any meaningful land reform in the country as women constituted over 70 per cent of the agricultural workforce feeding the country.