Indicator 5.a.1 (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Target 5.a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Indicator 5.a.1: (a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure

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Definition:

The indicator consists of two sub-indicators.

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (a) is a prevalence measure. It measures the prevalence of people in the agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, disaggregated by sex.

Sub-indicator 5.a.1 (b) focuses on gender parity, measuring the extent to which women are disadvantaged in ownership or secure rights over agricultural land.

Concepts:

(1) Agricultural land

Land is considered ‘agricultural land’ according to its use. The classes and definitions of land use are based on the Classification of land use for the agricultural census recommended by the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture 2020.

(2) Agricultural household

Ownership or secure rights over agricultural land are specifically relevant to individuals whose livelihood relies on agriculture. These individuals are identified by way of whether their household can be classified as an agricultural household which for purposes of calculating indicator 5.a.1 is characterized by the following:

• Criterion 1: A member or members of the household operated land for agricultural purposes or raised livestock over the past 12 months regardless of the final purpose of production

and

• Criterion 2: At least one member of the household operated land for agricultural purposes or raised livestock as an own-account worker.

(3) Agricultural population

The reference population for indicator 5.a.1 is the population of adult individuals living in agricultural households (as defined above). For purposes of international comparability, the recommended definition of “adult” is a person who is 18 years old or older.

(4) Ownership of agricultural land and secure rights over agricultural land

It is challenging to operationalize the definition of ownership of and secure rights to agricultural land for purposes of data collection.

Land ownership is a legally recognised right to acquire, to use and to transfer land.

Percentage (%)

Ghana Census of Agriculture (GCA), 2017/18

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)

Indicator 5.a.1 aims to monitor the gender balance on ownership/secure rights over agricultural land. Sub-indicator (a) and sub-indicator (b) are based on the same data and they monitor ownership/rights from two different angles. While sub-indicator (a) uses the total male/female agricultural population as reference population, and it tells us how many male/female own land, sub-indicator (b) focuses on the agricultural population with land ownership/secure rights, and it tells us how many of them are women.

Therefore, it is sufficient to have:

1. The number in the agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land (by sex), and
2. The total agricultural population

This data has been disaggregated by sex and status of documentation.

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