Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana
Customary land areas in Western Ghana have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Inherited and temporarily allocated family lands are being transferred to wives and children as inter-vivos gifts, to be planted with cocoa. Giving gifts is a way to circumvent the traditional Akan matrilineal...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1998
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| author | Otsuka, Keijiro Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. |
| author_browse | Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro Payongayong, Ellen Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
| author_facet | Otsuka, Keijiro Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. |
| author_sort | Otsuka, Keijiro |
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| description | Customary land areas in Western Ghana have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Inherited and temporarily allocated family lands are being transferred to wives and children as inter-vivos gifts, to be planted with cocoa. Giving gifts is a way to circumvent the traditional Akan matrilineal land inheritance system in which land is transferred from a deceased man to his matrilineal relatives but not to his wife and children. This study examines the effects of this process of individualization on the production efficiency of cocoa and food crops using detailed household-level data from 249 households in 10 villages in Western Ghana.....Given that a major proportion of labor input into young cocoa cultivation is provided by women and children, it is not surprising that gift transactions have evolved to increase their incentive to provide labor in establishing cocoa. There are also no significant gender differences in either net revenue per hectare or labor use per hectare. Thus, the transfer of land to women through gifts has improved gender equity without sacrificing production efficiency. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1614142025-02-19T14:02:17Z Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana Otsuka, Keijiro Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. land tenure women gender relations right to property labour productivity women agricultural laborers natural resources management gender property rights theobroma cacao Customary land areas in Western Ghana have been evolving towards individualized ownership. Inherited and temporarily allocated family lands are being transferred to wives and children as inter-vivos gifts, to be planted with cocoa. Giving gifts is a way to circumvent the traditional Akan matrilineal land inheritance system in which land is transferred from a deceased man to his matrilineal relatives but not to his wife and children. This study examines the effects of this process of individualization on the production efficiency of cocoa and food crops using detailed household-level data from 249 households in 10 villages in Western Ghana.....Given that a major proportion of labor input into young cocoa cultivation is provided by women and children, it is not surprising that gift transactions have evolved to increase their incentive to provide labor in establishing cocoa. There are also no significant gender differences in either net revenue per hectare or labor use per hectare. Thus, the transfer of land to women through gifts has improved gender equity without sacrificing production efficiency. 1998 2024-11-21T09:55:34Z 2024-11-21T09:55:34Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161414 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Otsuka, Keijiro; Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Payongayong, Ellen; Aidoo, J.B. 1998. Land tenure and management of trees;the case of customary land areas of Ghana. Gender and Forest Resource Management: A Comparative Study in Selected Areas of Asia and Africa -- Policy Brief. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161414 |
| spellingShingle | land tenure women gender relations right to property labour productivity women agricultural laborers natural resources management gender property rights theobroma cacao Otsuka, Keijiro Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title | Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title_full | Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title_short | Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana |
| title_sort | land tenure and management of trees the case of customary land areas of ghana |
| topic | land tenure women gender relations right to property labour productivity women agricultural laborers natural resources management gender property rights theobroma cacao |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161414 |
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