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The present paper seeks to fill the gap in the literature on migrant tenure in Ghana, through a case study on migrants’ tenurial rights in two communities, Nkwabeng and Dromankese, that form part of Ghana’s breadbasket and its expanding cashew frontier.
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Following green revolution ideologies, smallholder commercialization is promoted as a pathway to African economic transformation. Nonetheless, polices that incentivize commercial production in Ghana affect migrant groups negatively with respect to land tenure. While some migrants are displaced from rented lands, others offer their labour services in exchange for the right to “freely” intercrop on native’s cashew farms. The tenurial aspects of the new land–labour exchange relations cluster around labour tenancy without farmland or tree crop benefit sharing. A reversal to pre-historic non-capitalist tenure modes is favoured in land-abundant areas while market-based tenure is increasingly combined with food crop gifts.
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