Women’s Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership: Implications for Tree‐Resource Management in Western Ghana*

By A. Quisumbing, E. Payongayong, J. B. Aidoo, K. Otsuka. Economic development and cultural change, 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America (2011, background): “…as an important incentive for their adopting resource conserving measures (Marchetti 1997, Meinzen-Dick et al. 1997, Kaimowitz and Angelsen 1998, Quisumbing et al. 2001); uncertainty greatly limits women’s capacity to undertake action to mitigate degradation or unsustainable use (Yadama et al.…”
Land policies for growth and poverty reduction (2003, background): “More recent case studies provide added support for the empirical generalization that share tenancy provides a second-best arrangement that, in any given environment, is difficult to improve on unless the operation of factor and credit markets improves (Lansink, Pietola, and Backman 2002; Otsuka 2002”
Land Tenure Systems and Their Impacts on Agricultural Investments and Productivity in Uganda (2002, background): “…existing individual land rights, as the effort to plant trees of significance (for example, coffee and other high value trees) is rewarded by strengthened individual land rights in future, as was found in other countries [Otsuka et al., 2001; Quisumbing et al., 2001; Suyanto et al., 2001a, 2001b].”
Using the Law to Change the Custom (2012, unknown): “Rao (2007) states that legal support effectively adds authority to women’s voice since their land claims are thereby strengthened even though they do not necessarily resort to the formal court (Rao 2007: 312; see also Quisumbing et al., 2001; Davis, 2009).”
Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “In matrilineal areas of Ghana, women were more likely to plant cocoa trees on land on which they had secure, private property rights (108).”
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Uganda (2015, background): “The seminal paper, Udry et al. (1995), examines a sample of 150 households in six villages, while (Goldstein and Udry 2008) examine 60 married couples in four enumeration areas.”
The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa (2014, background): “…tenancy appears to have been common and even dominant in the land rental markets in Ethiopia and Madagascar and has to some extent also been practiced on cocoa fields in Ghana and tobacco estates in Malawi (Holden et al., 2006, 2008; Lunduka et al., 2008; Quisumbing et al., 2001; Bellemare, 2012).”
Understanding the Complexities Surrounding Gender Differences in Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria and Uganda (2011, background): “( 2001 ) find evidence of lower yields on female-owned parcels of cocoa also in Ghana, although this result is only weakly significant (at the 10% level).”