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‘Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors
Land Use Policy ( IF 6.189 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105630
Richmond Juvenile Ehwi , Divine Asafo Mawuli

Landguardism has become a bane in Ghana’s urban land markets. Previous studies have qualitatively explored the drivers of this phenomenon from the perspectives of both state agencies and landguards themselves. Despite the insights uncovered, understanding of public perceptions about the factors driving landguardism in Ghana is still lacking. This paper fills this critical gap by drawing on data from 172 residents living in both the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and the Greater Kumasi Area to ascertain their perceptions about the main factors driving landguardism in Ghana. The results from our exploratory factor analysis show that (1) challenges with state-led land rights formalisation, (2) customary land maladministration, (3) government policy failures in housing and land markets, (4) reliable and cost-effective landguard services, and (5) challenges with seeking legal redress, are the five main drivers of landguardism in Ghana. The study concludes that mitigating landguardism must consider multiple factors within which the concept sits. The political and policy implications of the results are elaborated.



中文翻译:

加纳的“土地保护主义”:检查公众对驱动因素的看法

土地保护主义已成为加纳城市土地市场的祸根。先前的研究从国家机构和土地卫士本身的角度定性地探讨了这种现象的驱动因素。尽管发现了一些见解,但仍然缺乏对公众对加纳土地保护主义驱动因素的看法的理解。本文利用居住在大阿克拉都会区和大库马西地区的 172 名居民的数据来填补这一关键空白,以确定他们对推动加纳土地保护主义的主要因素的看法。我们探索性因素分析的结果表明:(1) 国家主导的土地权利正规化面临的挑战,(2) 习惯性的土地管理不当,(3) 政府在住房和土地市场上的政策失误,(4) 可靠且具有成本效益的土地保护服务, (5) 寻求法律补救的挑战是加纳土地保护主义的五个主要驱动因素。该研究得出的结论是,减轻土地保护主义必须考虑该概念所在的多个因素。详细阐述了结果的政治和政策含义。

更新日期:2021-07-02
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