« Highlights :
• Customary land tenure is evolving from a negotiable to an exclusionary system.
• Rapid urbanisation and land commodification are transforming customary land rights.
• Customary custodians are re-interpreting usufructuary rights into permissive rights.
• Customary authority, formal planning and the market constitute exclusionary weapons.
• The flexibility of customary tenure can be manipulated to benefit the powerful. »
Source : Land Use Policy (Science Direct), 05/09/19, The politics of customary land rights transformation in peri-urban Ghana : Powers of exclusion in the era of land commodification
Veille : Vincent Basserie - Support technique : Hub Rural