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

Kugbega, Selorm Kobla LU (2024) In Journal of Peasant Studies
Abstract

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.

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land tenure, Migrant, natives, smallholder commercialization, social differentiation, Taungya
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Journal of Peasant Studies
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Frank Cass Publishers
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0306-6150
DOI
10.1080/03066150.2023.2300784
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English
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