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August 3, 2017
New study fills a knowledge gap on drivers of perceived land tenure security: Evidence from Ghana
Tenure security is believed to be critical in spurring agricultural investment and productivity. Yet what improves or impedes tenure security is still poorly understood. The new paper by Hosaena Ghebru and Isabel Lambrecht analyses the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security in Ghana.
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EnGendering Data Blog
November 18, 2016
Women’s access to land in Ghana: Are we asking the right questions, drawing the right conclusions?
With increased recognition of the importance of gender in development, researchers now often collect data disaggregated at the individual or intra-household level. But are we asking the right questions and making the right conclusions?
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Blog
October 7, 2016
“As a wife I will help, manage, and love”: The value of qualitative research in understanding land tenure and gender in Ghana
In this post I argue that qualitative field work aiming at understanding the local context is not a frivolous activity.
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Blog
August 25, 2014
Identifying agricultural expenditures within the public financial accounts and coding system in Ghana
Is the ten percent government agriculture expenditure overestimated? This new discussion paper just released by IFPRI is part of four country case
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