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Ethnic Land Rights in Western Ghana: Landlord–Stranger Relations in the Democratic Era

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  • Dennis Kwame Duku

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  • Catherine Boone & Dennis Kwame Duku, 2012. "Ethnic Land Rights in Western Ghana: Landlord–Stranger Relations in the Democratic Era," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 43(3), pages 671-693, May.
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    1. Fred-Mensah, Ben K., 1999. "Capturing Ambiguities: Communal Conflict Management Alternative in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 27(6), pages 951-965, June.
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    2. Hausermann, Heidi & Ferring, David & Atosona, Bernadette & Mentz, Graciela & Amankwah, Richard & Chang, Augustus & Hartfield, Kyle & Effah, Emmanuel & Asuamah, Grace Yeboah & Mansell, Coryanne & Sastr, 2018. "Land-grabbing, land-use transformation and social differentiation: Deconstructing “small-scale” in Ghana's recent gold rush," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 103-114.
    3. Festus A. Asaaga, 2021. "Building on “Traditional” Land Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Rural Ghana: Adaptive or Anachronistic?," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-17, February.
    4. Asaaga, Festus A. & Hirons, Mark A., 2019. "Windows of opportunity or windows of exclusion? Changing dynamics of tenurial relations in rural Ghana," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    5. Lankono, Charity Bazaabadire & Forkuor, David & Asaaga, Festus Atribawuni, 2023. "Examining the impact of customary land secretariats on decentralised land governance in Ghana: Evidence from stakeholders in Northern Ghana," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 130(C).
    6. Boone, Catherine, 2017. "Sons of the soil conflict in Africa: institutional determinants of ethnic conflict over land," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 69794, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Joseph Kwaku Kidido & Monica Lengoiboni, 2019. "Household Land Allocations and the Youth Land Access Nexus: Evidence from the Techiman Area of Ghana," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(12), pages 1-19, December.
    8. Resnik, Danielle & Okumo, Austen, 2017. "Institutional Limits To Land Governance Reform: Federal-State Dynamics In Nigeria," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers 259578, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    9. Boone, Catherine, 2017. "Sons of the Soil Conflict in Africa: Institutional Determinants of Ethnic Conflict Over Land," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 276-293.
    10. Chris Bryant & Matthew I. Mitchell, 2021. "The political ecology of cocoa in Ghana: Past, present and future challenges," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 45(4), pages 350-365, November.
    11. Boone, Catherine, 2015. "Land tenure regimes and state structure in rural Africa:implications for the forms of resistance to large-scale land acquisitions by outsiders," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 62288, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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