Property rights and renewable natural resources degradation in North-Western Ghana

J. A. Bakang and C. J. Garforth
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J. A. Bakang: Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana, Postal: Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
C. J. Garforth: AERDD, The University of Reading, Reading, UK, Postal: AERDD, The University of Reading, Reading, UK

Journal of International Development, 1998, vol. 10, issue 4, 501-514

Abstract: Using a case study approach to determine whether any particular resource rights regime and|or the level of security of land tenure are responsible for renewable natural resources (RNR) degradation, this paper argues that the continued use of irrelevant 'Western' concepts to describe the dynamic traditional land tenure system among the Dagaaba inhabitants of the region obscures important RNR management problems associated with the dynamic ecology of semi-arid environments. Degradation has more to do with the fragile environment with which the resource users have to cope. Institutional recognition and support for the traditional land tenure system is advocated. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199806)10:4<501::AID-JID541>3.0.CO;2-H

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