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together with annual tenancies at low rents (categories 1 and 2a), encompass about half (31 or 511170) of all tenancies. The other halfis at higher rents (categories_2b,_2c_and3 taltho_ugh_not moreJhan_ll,jncluding_theJIxed abusa rents, involve amounts of
family lands, we selected family lands located at varying distances from the centre. S Accordingly, in studying the differences between the four lands the effects of the factor 'distance' will somehow be thrown into relief. We would not have brought up this issue of distance if we had not had some definite notions as to the differences that it would make. The research experience which accumulated during the fieldwork period gave rise to the following hypotheses: 1. On the nearer family lands more people will attempt to acquire farms so that the auxiliary rules which allow - a child to farm on paternal land, - a husband/wife to farm on the land of his/her partner's family, - the granting of farming rights to a friend at no cost, will more frequently be involved. 2. Because the cultivation of annual foodstuffs necessarily involves the more regular headloading of bulky crops (cassava, plantain), there will be a tendency to use a larger part of the nearer lands for food production (both for subsistence and for the market). 3. Female farmers will more frequently farm on more near than on more distant lands. This is both because women are more often engaged in growing food crops, and because they can on average spend fewer hours per day on farrning, so that they will want to avoid long travelling times to and from their farms. 4. Due to the pressure to acquire farms on nearby land as well as to the concentration of foodcrop production there, a smaller part of these lands will remain uncultivated, fallow periods will be shorter, and a smaller proportion of the area will be set aside for (more) permanent cultivation. 5. Due to the more frequent allocation of farms to paternal relations, inlaws and friends on nearby family lands, there will be less occasion to lease land to tenants. For the more distant lands these hypotheses mean that we shall tend to find: - relatively fewer paternal relatives, in-laws and friends with farms there; - a smaller proportion of the land being devoted (annual) food crops; - relatively fewer women farming in these areas; 97
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The views expressed in this publica
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This research coul
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE When Emile Vercru
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I A BRIEF INTRODUCTION 10 THE PROBL
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agricultural productivity has reach
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Notes 1. Keith Griffin (1979) has c
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Most fallow land around Abura-Dunkw
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field which has been reaped; in the
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shelled pail by pail whenever it is
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Notes I. Quotations in this paragra
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HI ON THE SOClIAL RELATIONS OF PEAS
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- whether or not they have control
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tion was transformed into the tribu
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ges in exploitation and exploiters
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of a state government, both involve
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other words, exploitation is now in
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There is now fairly general recogni
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must now move to a much more concre
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12. According to Christensen (1954:
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IV AKAN LAND TENURE ARRANGEMENTS: A
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most if not all accounts of customa
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person (usually, but not always, a
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land. This intervening role ofthe e
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deemed abandoned after non-occupati
Page 55 and 56: Ch.III; Reindorf 1895; Kimble 1963)
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Page 59 and 60: purposes, and to subjects of other
Page 61 and 62: Notes 1. The first edition of Mensa
Page 63 and 64: v THEABURA-DUNKWA FAMILY LANDS AND
Page 65 and 66: anyone to acquire a right to farmla
Page 67 and 68: Equally, the land held (or claimed)
Page 69 and 70: eiterated that, consequent on their
Page 71 and 72: admitting that Nana Quansah was the
Page 73 and 74: emotions than anything else because
Page 75 and 76: Cape Coast where the case was down
Page 77 and 78: for him must be cancelled: It must
Page 79 and 80: Adwenadze: present-day descendants
Page 81 and 82: TableS: The Nnamfodo Lands and Thei
Page 83 and 84: It may be useful to point out that
Page 85 and 86: land (specifically: Kukubir 1 and 2
Page 87 and 88: 6 . Swearing an oath to an Akan mea
Page 89: 20. As we have explained in Ch.I1,
Page 92 and 93: homogeneous in terms of quality (gr
Page 94 and 95: tion of sample cases over the four
Page 96 and 97: (Dawurampon) is all there is availa
Page 98 and 99: 4. Auxiliary Rules for Allocating F
Page 100 and 101: Table 11: Farmers on Family Land of
Page 102 and 103: portion oftheir own family land may
Page 104 and 105: From Table 14 we see that apart fro
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Page 110 and 111: Hypothesis 4: Ignoring the uncultiv
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Page 116 and 117: 7. 'Total Acreage' in Thble 17 refe
Page 119 and 120: APPENDIX A SOME NOTES ON MFANTSE PO
Page 121 and 122: 1944 - and by then Ghana, or rather
Page 123 and 124: APPENDIXB OVERVIEW OF THE ARUBA-DUN
Page 125 and 126: NSONAMBUSUA 30. Kodju Dadzie Ekrofu
Page 127 and 128: APPENDIXC RANK CORRELATION BETWEEN
Page 129: RANK CORRELATION: Calculation rho =
Page 132 and 133: TnbleA.l Allocation of Farming Righ
Page 135 and 136: APPENDIXE THE FIELDWORK AND ITS IMP
Page 137 and 138: extent to which they were under cul
Page 139 and 140: people could not acquire land throu
Page 141: 2. Results of the farm operations q
Page 144 and 145: Casely Hayford, J.E. (1903) Gold Co
Page 146 and 147: O'Brien, J. (1979) The Political Ec
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