Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana
Based on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing population pressure, customary land tenure institutions i...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1998
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161420 |
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| author | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro |
| author_browse | Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro Payongayong, Ellen Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
| author_facet | Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro |
| author_sort | Quisumbing, Agnes R. |
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| description | Based on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing population pressure, customary land tenure institutions in Western Ghana have evolved toward individualized systems in order to provide appropriate incentives to invest in tree planting and management. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, individualization of land rights has strengthened women’s rights to land. If labor-intensive agriculture increases the demand for female labor, as in the case of cocoa in Ghana, a woman's labor on her husband's plot may represent a form of sweat equity that confers individualized land rights to her." |
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| language | Inglés |
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| spelling | CGSpace1614202025-02-19T14:00:16Z Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro land tenure land use economic aspects right to property gender relations planting forest management natural resources management gender property rights cocoa beans female farmers Based on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing population pressure, customary land tenure institutions in Western Ghana have evolved toward individualized systems in order to provide appropriate incentives to invest in tree planting and management. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, individualization of land rights has strengthened women’s rights to land. If labor-intensive agriculture increases the demand for female labor, as in the case of cocoa in Ghana, a woman's labor on her husband's plot may represent a form of sweat equity that confers individualized land rights to her." 1998 2024-11-21T09:55:36Z 2024-11-21T09:55:36Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161420 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Payongayong, Ellen; Aidoo, J.B.; Otsuka, Keijiro. 1998. Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership;implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana. Gender and Forest Resource Management: A Comparative Study in Selected Areas of Asia and Africa -- Policy Brief. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161420 |
| spellingShingle | land tenure land use economic aspects right to property gender relations planting forest management natural resources management gender property rights cocoa beans female farmers Quisumbing, Agnes R. Payongayong, Ellen Aidoo, J. B. Otsuka, Keijiro Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title | Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title_full | Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title_short | Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership: implications for tree resource management in Western Ghana |
| title_sort | women s land rights in the transition to individualized ownership implications for tree resource management in western ghana |
| topic | land tenure land use economic aspects right to property gender relations planting forest management natural resources management gender property rights cocoa beans female farmers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161420 |
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