Ghana: World Cocoa Farmers Organization presents proposal to Lands Commission on the need for land reforms

The World Cocoa Farmers Organization (WCFO) Ghana chapter, as part of its efforts to help secure appropriate land documentation for farmers in Ghana, has presented a proposal to the Executive Secretary of the Lands Commission on land tenure issues faced by cocoa farmers especially tenant cocoa farmers in the Western North Region of Ghana, here in Accra. The aim of the proposal presented is to help farmers secure legal documents that will protect cocoa and agricultural farmland from litigation matters. ContentionIn Ghana, land ownership is mostly governed by customary systems with chiefs controlling the majority of agricultural land; due to the importance of land and the lack of documentation on the part of most tenant cocoa farmers, contentions may sometimes arise in cocoa-growing regions of Ghana about access and ownership rights. Moses Djan Asiedu, Board Secretary, World Cocoa Farmers Organization in his submission explained that participatory research conducted by WCFO found ...