Résultats de la recherche

1. Library Resource

   

   Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   janvier, 2004

   Ghana, Afrique occidentale

   Terre et genre

   droit foncier

   terre

   This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women. Yet the increase in the demand for women's labour due to the expansion of labour intensive cocoa cultivation has created incentives for husbands to give their wives and children land. Through this and other gift mechanisms, women have increasingly acquired land, thereby reducing the gender gap in land ownership.

2. Library Resource

   

   Land and schooling: transferring wealth across generations

   janvier, 2004

   Indonésie, Ghana, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie orientale, Océanie, Asie méridionale

   droit foncier

   terre

   tenure foncière

   enregistrement foncier

   This article, a summary of the book sharing the same title, examines issues around the allocation of land and education within families.

3. Library Resource

   

   Land, trees, and women

   evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   Rapports et recherches

   décembre, 2001

   Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asia du sud-est, Afrique, Asie, Ghana, Indonésie

   Terre et genre

   tenure foncière

   systèmes de tenure

   femme

   droit de propriété

   gestion des ressources naturelles

   This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective? As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues.

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   Cost implications of agricultural land degradation in Ghana

   An economywide, multimarket model assessment

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2007

   Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Ghana

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   dégradation des terres

   Gestion foncière durable

   pauvreté

   "An economywide, multimarket model is constructed for Ghana and the effects of agricultural soil erosion on crop yields are explicitly modeled at the subnational regional level for eight main staple crops. The model is used to evaluate the aggregate economic costs of soil erosion by taking into account economywide linkages between production and consumption, across sectors and agricultural subsectors... Sustainable land management (SLM) is the key to reducing agricultural soil loss.

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   Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2018

   Afrique australe, Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie méridionale, Asie, Afrique, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambie

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Terre et sécurité alimentaire

   Terre et genre

   environnement

   changement climatique

   catastrophe naturelle

   Gestion foncière durable

   sécurité alimentaire

   gestion des ressources naturelles

   femme

   As climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall.

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   Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in upper West Ghana

   Documents de politique et mémoires

   décembre, 2017

   Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Ghana

   système d'exploitation agricole

   agriculture contractuelle

   droit agricole et rural

   agriculture

   recherche

   The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages (Masara and Akate) and a number of smaller and more flexible CF schemes in a remote region in Ghana (Upper West). Results show that these schemes led to improved technology adoption and yield increases. In addition, a subset of maize farmers with high yield improvements due to CF participation had high gross margins. However, on average, yields were not high enough to compensate for higher input requirements and cost of capital.

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   Perceived Land Tenure Security and Rural Transformation: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

   Rapports et recherches

   juillet, 2016

   Ghana, Afrique

   Terre et genre

   Terre et investissements

   femme

   terre

   marché foncier

   agriculteur

   tenure foncière

   Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. But collectively, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.

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   Ghana

   Articles et Livres

   décembre, 2013

   Ghana, Afrique, Afrique occidentale

   utilisation des terres

   agriculture

   Including inland water bodies, Ghana covers 238,539 square kilometers and is located on the south central coast of West Africa. The country shares bor¬ders in the east with Togo, in the north with Burkina Faso, and in the west with Côte d’Ivoire. The topography of Ghana is mainly undulating, with most slopes less than 5 percent and many not exceeding 1 percent. The topography of the high rainforest is, however, mainly strongly rolling. The uplifted edges of the Voltarian basin give rise to narrow plateaus between 300 and 600 meters in elevation (Boateng 1998).

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   Household decisions, gender, and development: a synthesis of recent research

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   Articles et Livres

   décembre, 2003

   Afrique, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie, Asie méridionale, Bangladesh, Népal, Afrique du Sud, Éthiopie, Ghana, Zambie

   Terre et genre

   Terre et sécurité alimentaire

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   droit de propriété

   femme

   système d'exploitation agricole

   agriculture

   jeunesse

   gestion des ressources naturelles

   droit agricole et rural

   pêches

   This book synthesizes IFPRI's recent work on the role of gender in household decisionmaking in developing countries, provides evidence on how reducing gender gaps can contribute to improved food security, health, and nutrition in developing countries, and gives examples of interventions that actually work to reduce gender disparities. It is an accessible, easy-to-read synthesis of the gender research that IFPRI has undertaken in the 1990s.

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    Do development projects crowd out private-sector activities? A survival analysis of contract farming participation in northern Ghana

    Documents de politique et mémoires

    décembre, 2016

    Afrique occidentale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Ghana

    agriculture contractuelle

    agriculteur

    système d'exploitation agricole

    agriculture

    développement rural

    Contract farming (CF) is attractive as a possible private-sector-led strategy for improving smallholder farmers’ welfare. Yet many CF schemes suffer from high turnover of participating farmers and struggle to survive. So far, the dynamics of CF participation have remained largely unexplored. We employ duration analysis to examine factors affecting entry into and exit from different maize CF schemes in northern Ghana, focusing specifically on the impact of development projects on CF entry and exit.