Dennis Asare, a senior research associate at the Imani Centre for Policy and Education, has emphasised the need to reduce the exclusion and prejudice women experience while gaining access to property.
"We still witness a lot of exclusion and prejudice that women confront in acquiring land in this country after over three decades of land reforms," he said.
At a gathering in support of the "Benefits to Women of Greater Access to Land" initiative, Mr. Asare made the statement.
The study was a component of a plan to decrease poverty where they investigate creative community-level solutions that help increase women's entrepreneurship or generally improve people's talents and how it all works together to reduce poverty.
He pointed out that around 25% of women who lived in households where agriculture was practised might own land.
"Our efforts to reduce poverty won't benefit everyone if we don't campaign for more access for women to land," he continued.
Taking care of family food, raising children, and other responsibilities required women to be able to successfully manage their finances, he said, adding that "land is the most significant economic resource for women in rural regions."
Collaboration
Lawyer Yaw D. Oppong, the managing partner of Ampofo, Oppong and Partners, recommended that women in farming, particularly in the northern area, form cooperatives when negotiating with banks on financial matters.
Most banks will feel more at ease working with cooperatives than they would with my elderly mother, who has one acre of cocoa, for example, he said.
Video "No Woman's Land," a documentary by Imani and Atlas Network, intended to clarify the difficulties women face in gaining access to land in the north.
The economy's main driver of development is the agriculture sector, which accounts for 20% of the GDP and has had annual growth of 4.9%.
Agriculture is the primary source of income in rural regions, where it is practised by nearly seven out of every ten persons.
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