There’s a significant shift towards the recognition of customary rights and the strengthening of women’s land rights.
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Reforms to land policies and regulations are enabling the traditional custodians of the land in Ghana to transfer ownership. Communal land users could lose their basic rights.
Mega-projects tend to represent the interests of state and business elites.
Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the constitution.
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Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer, Land Management and Land Tenure, University for Development Studies