Goldstein, M.Udry, C.2016-04-192016-04-192008Journal of Political Economy 116(6): 981-10220022-3808http://hdl.handle.net/10919/68853Metadata only recordThis article investigates the impact of contested land rights on investment and productivity in agriculture in Akwapim, Ghana. The authors find that insecure land tenure in Ghana is associated with greatly reduced investment in land fertility. Individuals who are not central to the networks social and political power are much more likely to have their land expropriated while it lies fallow. Powerful individuals invest more in their land's fertility and thus have higher yields.text/plainen-USIn CopyrightSoil conservationTenancyTenure systemSoil fertilityCommunity participationPolitical hierarchyAgricultural productionChieftaincyMatrilineageFarm/Enterprise Scale GovernanceAbstractCopyright 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.https://doi.org/10.1086/595561