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Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership

gender and forest resource management: a comparative study in selected areas of asia and africa -- policy brief
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1998
| by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ellen Payongayong, J.B. Aidoo and Keijiro Otsuka

Based on a survey of 60 villages in Western Ghana, where cocoa is the dominant crop, this study explores evolutionary changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management....With increasing

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Causes and consequences of changing land tenure institutions in Western Ghana

gender and forest resource management: a comparative study in selected areas of asia and africa -- policy brief
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1998
| by Keijiro Otsuka, J.B. Aidoo, Towa Tachibana and Agnes R. Quisumbing

Land tenure institutions in customary land areas of Sub-Saharan Africa have been evolving towards individualized ownership.

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Land tenure and management of trees

gender and forest resource management: a comparative study in selected areas of asia and africa -- policy brief
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1998
| by Keijiro Otsuka, Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ellen Payongayong and J.B. Aidoo

Customary 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.