Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Ghana: Institutional Change, Gender and Power by

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This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana's Volta Region, which has been purported by some as a social and ecological showcase with the company entering a 'community-private partnership' with affected communities.

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This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana's Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "community–private partnership" with affected communities.Celebrated by national and international media, the project has received substantial amounts of funding from various donor organisations and claims to empower women through its much-lauded outgrower project. Although discourses of "development", "sustainability" and "women's empowerment" are used by the investment company, the state and the customary authorities to legitimise the large-scale land acquisition, this book highlights how the deal benefits mainly the powerful elite, including elite women, and generally increases the depreciation of those already most marginalised, such as poor female-headed households and settler communities that were dependent on resources from the commons now enclosed and transformed into a rice farm. The author adopts a New Institutionalist perspective in social anthropology in order to analyse how this land acquisition has been implemented in a plural institutional context and how different actors use different rules and regulations and associated legitimating discourses to increase their bargaining power and to pursue their own interests in a changing legal context. In addition, this perspective shows how benefits and losses are distributed along different intersecting axes of power, such as class, gender, clan membership and age. By focusing on power, gender and legitimisation strategies in the context of institutional change caused by the large-scale land acquisition, this book fills a gap in the literature on large-scale land acquisitions while contributing to the development of a theoretical perspective on institutional change, power relations and ideological legitimisation.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of land and resource grabbing, agricultural development and agribusiness, land management and development studies more broadly.

Author Biography

Kristina Lanz is a Senior Policy Advisor for Alliance Sud, where she works on issues relating to development cooperation, development banks and sustainable international development. Within this role, she advises federal offices, members of parliament and the federal council of Switzerland. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Berne, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: land grabbing as institutional transformation2 The policy context: feeding Africa while doing business – the anti-politics of large-scale land acquisitions3 Chasing the evolutionary role of chiefs in local land relations4 Implementation of a land deal in a plural legal setting5 "They said they were bringing a development project" – the evolution of local livelihoods and impacts of the large-scale land investment6 Conclusion: contested land deals, gendered power relations7 Epilogue: from research to action

Details ISBN1032080655 Author Kristina Lanz Pages 130 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781032080659 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-29 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Institutional Change, Gender and Power Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781032080635 DEWEY 333.309667 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education UK Release Date 2024-01-29 ISBN-10 1032080655 We've got this

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