MANAGING LAND FOR THE COMMON GOOD? EVIDENCE FROM A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN AGONA, GHANA

摘要: The common and dominant view that customary land tenure systems in Africa are inefficient because they forbid individuation, not registered, insecure, discourage access to credit, provide incentive for free rider problems is examined through a case study of one community Ghana, West Africa. A ninety-day field the area explored extent which system has supported community-based housing project how that, turn, shaped or constrained infrastructural socio-economic political development. paper reveals communal ownership deviates from orthodox description escapes associated with so-called ‘tragedy commons’. Abuse by both corporation corporators possible probable, but custom. Growing processes modernisation, commodification, secularisation will undermine this system.