Global restructuring and land rights in Ghana : forest food chains, timber, and rural livelihoods / Kojo Sebastian Amanor.
1999
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Author
Title
Global restructuring and land rights in Ghana : forest food chains, timber, and rural livelihoods / Kojo Sebastian Amanor.
Published
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999.
Call Number
KRX986 .A96 1999a
Former Call Number
Gha 664 Am14 1999
ISBN
9171064370
Description
154 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)183926658
Note
"A report from the research programme: The Political and Social Context of Structural Adjustment in Africa"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-154).
Reproduction
Photocopy. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Law Library, 2005. 28 cm.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
8
1
The modern agrifood system, the World Bank and the post-colonial state
24
The globalisation of the modern agrifood system
28
The modern agrifood system in Ghana
33
Structural adjustment and agricultural modernisation
38
2
The state, tradition, capital and the land
43
Codifying land law
45
Post-war restructuring: land in the post-colonial setting
57
Globalisation and structural adjustment
61
Land relations in the forestry sector
63
Periodising the land question
79
3
Adjusting to new land pressures and commoditisation in Akyem
84
The Akyem area
85
Land and agriculture in Akyem
87
Cropping systems
92
The oil palm sector and agribusiness
93
The Kwae Project and social differentiation
101
Land and timber in the forestry sector
120
Cool reflections at dawn
130
4
Epilogue on the land question
134
Community, state and customary tenure
137
Commodification of lineage land and social stratification
139
Export-oriented growth, international agriculture and the land question
142
Towards a new perspective
144
References
148