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Journal Article
Custom, modernity, and stability of land rights in Ghana: An empirico-legal review
2023
Overview
Land in Ghana is mostly governed by customary tenure systems. The sole purpose is ensuring the egalitarian use of land resources to secure the welfare of customary families and individuals with common interest in land. However, a confluence of issues including obstinate national policies on land, globalization, and land grabbing, and changing socio-economic context, have synergistically altered the customary regimes with varied and complex consequences for rural land access and use rights. This paper through narrative literature review unpacks the legal regime for customary land governance on the one hand, and empirical studies on the other, to understand the extent of destabilization of the bundle of rights in Ghana's property rights regime. This review shows the different bundles of rights examined have different levels of stability. Access and use rights remain the most stable, use, and withdrawal rights are under severe stress, while exclusion and alienation rights seek to strengthen chief authority over land. The trusteeship role of chiefs has been replaced by powers resembling absolute ownership, thereby tacitly supporting the alienability of land by chiefs, a development unintended by customary land governance relations.
Publisher
Cogent,Taylor & Francis Ltd,Taylor & Francis Group
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