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Working paper
Transformations of traditional landuse systems and their effects on development opportunities and people’s livelihoods in Northern Ghana
(kassel university press, 2015)
Agricultural land in Northern Ghana was under the traditional arrangements till recent times. Small-scale farmers and their families could collect water, firewood, fodder andseasonal fruits or carried out hunting on communal lands, owned by local chiefs and fetish priests, under the provisions made by customary laws.Recent developments in this area include up-scaling of the mining industry, large scale commercial agriculture projects and cultivation of biofuel crops. All these developmentschemes are affecting access ...