Land tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana

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dc.creatorOtsuka, Keijiro
dc.creatorQuisumbing, Agnes R.
dc.creatorPayongayong, Ellen
dc.creatorAidoo, J. B.
dc.date1998
dc.date2024-11-21T09:55:34Z
dc.date2024-11-21T09:55:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:38:34Z
dc.descriptionCustomary 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/161414
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/110349
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceOtsuka, 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
dc.subjectland tenure
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectgender relations
dc.subjectright to property
dc.subjectlabour productivity
dc.subjectwomen agricultural laborers
dc.subjectnatural resources management
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectproperty rights
dc.subjecttheobroma cacao
dc.titleLand tenure and management of trees: the case of customary land areas of Ghana
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