Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana : Forest Food Chains, Timber and Rural Livelihoods Book

	Acknowledgements	7
	Introduction	8
1	The modern agrifood system, the World Bank and the post-colonial state	24
	The globalisation of the modern agrifood system	28
	The modern agrifood system in Ghana	33
	Structural adjustment and agricultural modernisation	38
2	The state, tradition, capital and the land	43
	Codifying land law	45
	Post-war restructuring: land in the post-colonial setting	57
	Globalisation and structural adjustment	61
	Land relations in the forestry sector	63
	Periodising the land question	79
3	Adjusting to new land pressures and commoditisation in Akyem	84
	The Akyem area	85
	Land and agriculture in Akyem	87
	Cropping systems	92
	The oil palm sector and agribusiness	93
	The Kwae Project and social differentiation	101
	Land and timber in the forestry sector	120
	Cool reflections at dawn	130
4	Epilogue on the land question	134
	Community, state and customary tenure	137
	Commodification of lineage land and social stratification	139
	Export-oriented growth, international agriculture and the land question	142
	Towards a new perspective	144
	References	148