What determines access to irrigated land: a case of Golinga irrigation, Tolon district, Ghana.

Majority of people in Ghana depends on agriculture for their survival particularly those in rural areas. Not enough food is produced from relying on rain-fed agriculture, that is why irrigation farming is more appropriate method to be used to complement rain-fed agriculture to improve agricultural production in order to enhance food security and poverty reduction throughout the country. Establishing irrigation projects and the allocation of irrigated land brings about issues regarding unequal access largely due to power relations because of the limited number of the irrigated lands. Certain individuals will not have access because they don’t have the means to do so. The study aims to determine the factors that determines access to Golinga irrigated land in Tolon district, Ghana. Who has access to the Golinga irrigation project and what determines who they are. Purposive sampling technique were used to select the respondents for the study. The respondents consist of those having access to the project and those that do not but within the catchment area of the project. Semi-structured interviews were the data collection method used to obtain the relevant data for the study. Data was appropriately analysed and discussed.