Dynamics of youth access to agricultural land under the customary tenure regime in the Techiman traditional area of Ghana |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Land Economy, College of Art and Built Environment, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana;2. Centre for Land Studies, College of Art and Built Environment, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana;1. Department of Land Economy, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana;2. Department of Real Estate and Land Management, University for Development Studies (UDS—Wa Campus), PO Box UPW 3, Wa, Ghana;3. Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;1. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway;2. Mekelle University, Department of Economics, P. O. Box 451, Mekelle, Ethiopia;1. Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo, Building of Environmental Studies, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba, 277-8563, Japan;2. Department of Real Estate and Land Management, University for Development Studies, Post Office Box UWP 3, Wa, Ghana;3. Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigated youth access to agricultural land under customary land tenure in Ghana. Using Techiman Traditional Area as a case study, the study applied multiple sampling techniques in a multi-stage sampling process to select the study communities and respondents. A total sample of 455 youth respondents and 23 elders were covered in twenty peri-urban and rural communities. The study revealed that irrespective of whichever mode (market or non-market) the youth employed to access agricultural land, in rural or peri-urban areas, there were constraints to their land sizes. Majority of the youth, both indigenes and migrants, held small land sizes of 1–3 acres for farming purposes. The underlying causes were two-fold: demand-related such as high cost of accessing land and competition from residential developers and supply-related such as unwillingness of the elders to release land and increasing scarcity of productive family land, among others. It is thus the conclusion of the paper that more research should be conducted across the country into youth access to agricultural land under customary tenure as a means of formulating an evidence-based youth agricultural land access policy for the country. There is also the need for public education of customary authorities to sensitize them on the need for making land accessible to the youth for agricultural purpose. |
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| Keywords: | Youth Land Access Customary Tenure Techiman |
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