Transforming food systems through inclusive agribusiness
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Volume 158, p. 1-15
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Volume 158, p. 1-15
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In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Volume 38, p. 147-162
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: The journal of development studies, Volume 57, Issue 8, p. 1428-1442
ISSN: 1743-9140
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In: The journal of development studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 187-203
ISSN: 1743-9140
Since the confluence of the food and oil price crises of the mid 2000s, Ghana has become a prime destination for large-scale farmland investments. While this trend could make valuable contributions to an ailing agricultural sector, the alienation of rural land for commercial ends could conversely have far-reaching implications for customary land rights. Through an analysis of the legislation protecting customary land rights and governing such the alienation of those rights and by contrasting this with practice, this article highlights some of the fundamental challenges in translating legal rights into tenure security in contemporary Ghana. It shows that despite the legal recognition of customary land rights, in practice customary land users are ultimately responsible for contesting infringements upon these rights. With traditional authorities able to capture substantial rents from the alienation process and government institutions offering scant oversight as a result of fragmented responsibilities, capacity constraints, and political disincentive, the protection of customary land rights is becoming increasingly contingent on community 'capacity to claim'. Since poor access to information, unrealistic expectations and deference to traditional authority tends to quell disputes over alienation, the limited mechanisms for protecting citizen access to resources gives reason to reconsider the importance of direct state involvement in the customary land domain. Adapted from the source document.
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 187-203
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: The journal of development studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 187-203
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Volume 139, p. 1-15
World Affairs Online