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Adapting land administration to the institutional framework of customary tenure: The case of peri-urban Ghana

Adapting land administration to the institutional framework of customary tenure: The case of peri-urban Ghana

10 May 2011-

About: The article was published on 2011-05-10 and is currently open access. It has received 99 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land administration.

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...As noted by Arko-Adjei (2011), the bond between people and land under customary tenure is only broken under land commercialisation and urbanisation....
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...2 chiefdoms, families and Tendaamba (Arko-Adjei, 2011)....
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...The hierarchy devolves from the king to paramount chiefs, divisional chiefs and caretaker chiefs (Arko-Adjei, 2011)....
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...Land is predominantly owned and controlled by customary institutions including chiefdoms, families and Tendaamba (Arko-Adjei, 2011)....
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...The concept of customary tenure is multi-dimensional and has been used synonymously in different contexts with the terms ‘indigenous tenure’, ‘traditional tenure’ and ‘communal tenure’ by various researchers (Arko-Adjei, 2011)....
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...They also draw on the work of Hardin (1968), Harrison (1987) and Meek (1968), who questioned the efficiency of customary tenure systems in many respects....
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