Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of Land Policy Under Neo-Liberalization,9789171064684

Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of Land Policy Under Neo-Liberalization

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ISBN13: 9789171064684
ISBN10: 9171064680
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Transaction Pub
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Summary

This report is based on field work carried out in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the forest region of Ghana, a section of the country rich in agricultural land, gold, and diamonds. Through the field work which was undertaken and the empirical material generated, the author attempts to chart the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use in contemporary Ghana.

Author Biography

Kojo Sebastian Amanor is a senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5(5)
Evolutionary Property Rights School
5(4)
Institutional arrangements: The communitarian approach
9(1)
Problems in defining the community
10(10)
Arcadian Africa and authentic culture
11(4)
Social differentiation and control over land
15(2)
Community boundaries and community representation
17(2)
Change and transformation
19(1)
An outline of what lies ahead
20(5)
The Setting
25(20)
The emergence of Akyem Abuakwa
27(3)
New migrants and the commodification of land
30(2)
The commodification of agrarian production in the early twentieth century
32(3)
The administration of land
35(5)
Commodification of labour and youth in the postcolonial setting
40(3)
Conclusion
43(2)
Two Types of Cocoa Settlement
45(18)
Atewa Range settlements
45(7)
Population and migration
47(3)
Employment and livelihood
50(1)
Agriculture and the farming system
51(1)
Land at Kofi Pare
52(9)
Population and migration
56(1)
Employment and livelihood
57(1)
Agriculture and the farming system
58(3)
Conclusion
61(2)
Land, Labour and Matrikin
63(48)
Land and matriliny
64(12)
Principles of land tenure and circuits of access to land
69(1)
Land clearance
70(1)
Kinship relations and land
71(4)
User rights in land
75(1)
Sharecrop arrangements
75(1)
Land leasing
75(1)
Purchase of land
76(1)
Land in the Atewa Range settlements
76(18)
Land shortage and declining male authority
78(3)
The decline of extended kinship welfare support
81(2)
Land shortage and labour service
83(5)
Land sales
88(2)
The matrifocal alliance and the significance of male spouses
90(4)
Land at Kofi Pare
94(11)
The family system
101(2)
Sharecropping
103(1)
Land sales
104(1)
Conclusion
105(6)
Conclusion: Integrating Land and Labour Issues
111(12)
References 123

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