Land tenure regimes for women in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana: Opportunities and threats
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Land rights; Tenure security; Women; Community Resource Management Area (CREMAs); Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights; REDD+; Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA);All these keywords.
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