Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy
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...
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| author | Lambrecht, Isabel B. Asare, Sarah |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1501712025-11-06T05:14:18Z Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy Lambrecht, Isabel B. Asare, Sarah customary land rights agricultural investment land tenure land markets smallholders tenure insecurity property rights land rights customary tenure 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. 2015-12-18 2024-08-01T02:50:54Z 2024-08-01T02:50:54Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150171 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147081 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150981 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Lambrecht, Isabel; Asare, Sarah. 2015. Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1492. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150171 |
| spellingShingle | customary land rights agricultural investment land tenure land markets smallholders tenure insecurity property rights land rights customary tenure Lambrecht, Isabel B. Asare, Sarah Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title | Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title_full | Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title_fullStr | Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title_short | Smallholders and land tenure in Ghana: Aligning context, empirics, and policy |
| title_sort | smallholders and land tenure in ghana aligning context empirics and policy |
| topic | customary land rights agricultural investment land tenure land markets smallholders tenure insecurity property rights land rights customary tenure |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150171 |
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