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Selorm Kobla Kugbega

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How Agricultural Commercialization Impacts Migrants' Land Tenure : Unpacking Displacement and Tenurial Adaptations in Ghana's Agricultural Landscape

Author

  • Selorm Kobla Kugbega

Summary, in English

Following green revolution ideologies, smallholder commercialization is promoted as a pathway to African economic transformation. Nonetheless, polices that incentivize commercial production in Ghana affect migrant groups negatively with respect to land tenure. While some migrants are displaced from rented lands, others offer their labour services in exchange for the right to "freely” intercrop on native’s cashew farms. The tenurial aspects of the new land–labour exchange relations cluster around labour tenancy without farmland or tree crop benefit sharing. A reversal to pre-historic non-capitalist tenure modes is favoured in land-abundant areas while market-based tenure is increasingly combined with food crop gifts.

Department/s

  • Department of Human Geography

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Peasant Studies

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Frank Cass Publishers

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • land tenure
  • Migrant
  • natives
  • smallholder commercialization
  • social differentiation
  • Taungya

Status

Epub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0306-6150