This paper analyses women’s access and security to land under customary land governance in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana through document analyses and surveys of 312 land right holders and tenants from 13 communities. The key interest is to investigate the potential for combining customary land practices with land title registration and education in improving women’s economic empowerment and social development in the Dorimon and Zukpiri CREMAs. The paper focuses on the motivation of land right holders to grant land rights to women through land use agreements and reasons for terminating such agreements, and provides critical perspectives and data to support the development of tenure security indicators for community protected agro-ecological areas. The study also assesses the position of women in anticipation of forest carbon credits as against their current land holding rights and concludes that despite inherent weaknesses of customary land governance in protected areas, opportunities exist to scale up and expand the formalisation of land use rights through CREMAs, education and the use of Voluntary Savings and Loans Association to enable women gain access to sufficient land. This could significantly help improve women smallholder farmers’ tenure security to land, provide livelihood options, enhance food security and ensure their participation and profit from entering into result based ecosystem payment scheme such as REDD+.

本文通过对来自 13 个社区的 312 名土地权利持有人和租户的文件分析和调查，分析了加纳北部社区资源管理区 (CREMA) 中妇女获得土地的机会和安全。主要兴趣是调查将传统土地做法与土地所有权登记和教育相结合的潜力，以改善 Dorimon 和 Zukpiri CREMA 中妇女的经济赋权和社会发展。本文重点关注土地权利持有人通过土地使用协议将土地权利授予妇女的动机以及终止此类协议的原因，并提供重要的观点和数据，以支持社区受保护的农业生态区权属保障指标的制定。该研究还评估了妇女在预期森林碳信用额相对于她们目前的土地所有权方面的地位，并得出结论认为，尽管保护区的传统土地治理存在固有缺陷，但仍有机会通过 CREMA 扩大和扩大土地使用权的正规化、教育和利用自愿储蓄和贷款协会使妇女能够获得足够的土地。这可以显着帮助改善女性小农的土地使用权保障，提供生计选择，加强粮食安全，并确保她们参与 REDD+ 等基于结果的生态系统支付计划并从中获益。存在机会通过 CREMA、教育和使用自愿储蓄和贷款协会来扩大和扩大土地使用权的正规化，使妇女能够获得足够的土地。这可以显着帮助改善女性小农的土地使用权保障，提供生计选择，加强粮食安全，并确保她们参与 REDD+ 等基于结果的生态系统支付计划并从中获益。存在机会通过 CREMA、教育和使用自愿储蓄和贷款协会来扩大和扩大土地使用权的正规化，使妇女能够获得足够的土地。这可以显着帮助改善女性小农的土地使用权保障，提供生计选择，加强粮食安全，并确保她们参与 REDD+ 等基于结果的生态系统支付计划并从中获益。