Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana
Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana

Author: Kojo Amanor

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9789171064370

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The report highlights the long history of commodification of land and labour in Ghana, linked to speculative activities and more recently to the activities of international capital, agribusiness, international agricultural centres, and agencies of the state. It makes the case for a new land, agrarian and natural resource regime that prioritises domestic economic needs to provide security of livelihood to the generality of the people.

Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana
Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana

Author: Lambrecht, Isabel

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2015-12-18

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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For decades, policymakers and development practitioners have debated benefits and threats of property rights formalization and private versus customary tenure systems. This paper provides insights into the challenges in understanding and empirically analyzing the relationship between tenure systems and agricultural investment, and formulates policy advice that can support land tenure interventions. We focus on Ghana, based on extensive qualitative fieldwork and a review of empirical research and policy documents. Comparing research findings is challenging due to the use of different indicators, the varying contexts, and the diversity of investments. The interaction between land rights and investment make establishing causality extremely difficult. Setting policy priorities and strategies requires more and better insights into the diverse responses of different stakeholders and the tenure and cropping systems involved.

The Profits of Power
The Profits of Power

Author: Christopher Udry

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights, and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual correspond to that individual's security of tenure over those specific plots, and in turn to the individual's position in the political hierarchy relevant to those specific plots. We interpret these results in the context of a simple model of the political allocation of land rights in local matrilineages.

Competing Norms
Competing Norms

Author: Mamadou Diawara

Publisher: Campus Verlag

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3593434792

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Meist wird der Staat in Afrika, wie auch anderswo, als Träger von Ordnung, Fortschritt und Disziplin gesehen, da er über die Autorität verfügt, Gesetze zu erlassen und deren Einhaltung zum Wohl der Gesellschaft zu sanktionieren. Dieser Band untersucht die Bedeutung der staatlichen Gesetzgebung für die Bevölkerungen im subsaharischen Afrika und setzt diese in Beziehung zu bereits existierenden lokalen Normen, mit denen die neuen Gesetze konkurrieren müssen.

The Politics of Custom
The Politics of Custom

Author: John L. Comaroff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 022651093X

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assembling Export Markets
Assembling Export Markets

Author: Stefan Ouma

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1118632591

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Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketization Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’ Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile character Offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalism Critically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets