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.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2004Ghana, Afrique occidentale
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2004Rwanda, Nigéria, Zambie, Afrique du Sud, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Sénégal, Éthiopie, Afrique sub-saharienne
In this report, the COHRE Women and Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) documents the fact that under both statutory and customary law, the overwhelming majority of women in sub-Saharan Africa (regardless of their marital status) cannot own or inherit land, housing and other property in their own right.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencedécembre, 2004Ghana
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