Custom, modernity, and stability of land rights in Ghana: An empirico-legal review

Land in Ghana is mostly governed by customary tenure systems. The sole purpose ensuring the egalitarian use of land resources to secure welfare families and individuals with common interest land. However, a confluence issues including obstinate national policies on land, globalization, grabbing, changing socio-economic context, have synergistically altered regimes varied complex consequences for rural access rights. This paper through narrative literature review unpacks legal regime governance one hand, empirical studies other, understand extent destabilization bundle rights Ghana’s property regime. shows different bundles examined levels stability. Access remain most stable, use, withdrawal are under severe stress, while exclusion alienation seek strengthen chief authority over trusteeship role chiefs has been replaced powers resembling absolute ownership, thereby tacitly supporting alienability chiefs, development unintended relations.