Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2015, 63(3), 893-901 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201563030893

Analysis of Land Tenure Systems and its Relationship with Productivity in the Agricultural Sector in Ghana

Libor Grega1, Emmanuel Kofi Ankomah1, Samuel Antwi Darkwah2
1 Department of Regional and Business Economics, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Territorial Studies, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The paper assesses the effects of Land Tenure systems and its relationship with agricultural productivity in Ghana. It discusses the complex nature of the Tenure systems and some of the reforms the country has done over the years and standard of living in the rural communities. In its assessments, this paper extracts information from Cross-Section Data and analyse it by applying Chi-square test to show the relationship between Land Tenure Systems and agriculture productivity. The outcome shows that Land Tenure Systems has a direct influence on productivity in Agriculture and can result in poverty and low standard of living among peasant farmers. In view of the problems, the paper discusses the prevalence of the terms, rules and regulations of the land acquisitions process and its repercussions and concludes from the results that Land Tenure Systems is a factor for low productivity in Agribusiness, and makes recommendations for the improvement of the land Tenure Systems to reduce the inherent insecurity.

Keywords: land tenure, agriculture, insecurity, development, productivity, poverty

Prepublished online: June 28, 2015; Published: August 1, 2015  Show citation

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Grega, L., Ankomah, E.K., & Darkwah, S.A. (2015). Analysis of Land Tenure Systems and its Relationship with Productivity in the Agricultural Sector in Ghana. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 63(3), 893-901. doi: 10.11118/actaun201563030893
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