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Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana (Record no. 63643)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 63643
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field MX-TxCIM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20211006073109.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 200212s2017 xxk|||p|op||| 00| 0 eng d
022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 0306-6150
022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 1743-9361 (Online)
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2016.1228629
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 19628
Personal name Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Land grabbing, social differentiation, intensified migration and food security in northern Ghana
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London (United Kingdom) :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Taylor & Francis,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Peer review
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This paper argues that large-scale land appropriation is displacing subsistence farmers and reworking agrarian social relations in northern Ghana. The recent wave of farmland enclosure has not only resulted in heightened land scarcity, but also fostered a marked social differentiation within farming communities. The dominant form of inequality is an evolving class of landless and near-landless farmers. The majority of households cope with such dynamics by deepening their own self-exploitation in the production process. The fulcrum of this self-exploitation is gendered property rights as part of the conjugal contract, with men exerting a far greater monopoly over land resources than had previously been the case. Due to acute land shortages, women’s rights to use land as wives, mothers and daughters are becoming insecure, as their vegetable plots are being reclassified as male-controlled household fields. The paper further documents the painful choices that landless farmers have to make in order to meet livelihood needs, including highly disciplined, yet low-waged, farm labor work and sharecropping contracts. In these livelihood pathways, there emerge, again, exploitative relations of production, whereby surplus is expropriated from land-dispossessed migrant laborers and concentrated with farm owners. These dynamics produce a ‘simple reproduction squeeze’ for the land-dispossessed. Overall, the paper contributes to the emerging land grabbing literature by showing geographically specific processes of change for large-scale mining operations and gendered differentiated impacts.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note Text in English
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 19638
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Land grabbing
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1123
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Gender
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1763
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Smallholders
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Food security
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
9 (RLIN) 1118
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 4493
Geographic name Ghana
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17766
Personal name Bezner Kerr, R.
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Place, publisher, and date of publication London (United Kingdom) : Taylor & Francis, 2017.
Related parts v. 44, no. 2, p. 421-444
Title Journal of Peasant Studies
International Standard Serial Number 0306-6150
Record control number u444564
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04/28/2021   04/28/2021 Article Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     Reprints Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 04/28/2021

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