scholarly journals Factors influencing the Production of Local Rice in Ghana : The Moderating Role of Open Innovation

2020 ◽  
pp. 679-695
Author(s):  
Kankam William Adomako ◽  
Tian Hong Yun ◽  
Florence Appiah-Twum ◽  
Isaac Gumah Akolgo ◽  
Eric Owusu Asamoah
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Purpose </strong>– The study reports the factors influencing the production of local rice in Ghana with a moderating effect of open innovation to boost rice production. <br> <strong>Design/methodology/approach</strong> – This study employs a cross-sectional survey to gather the views of 250 rice farmers. A self-administered survey questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data was analyzed using SmartPLS software 3.2.8.<br> <strong>Findings</strong> – The study indicates that land tenure system, inadequate infrastructure and irrigation system are the factors influencing the production of local rice in Ghana. The findings suggest<br> that all four factors have a significant and positive effect on the production of rice. The study shows that there is a direct and positive relationship between open innovation and output of rice production in Ghana. Open innovation was found to moderate the positive relationship between infrastructure and rice output. Again, the relationship between land tenure system and rice production is moderated by open innovation. Furthermore, the relationship between irrigation and rice production is moderated by open innovation.  <br> <strong>Practical implications</strong> – To improve rice production, the study therefore, recommend that, infrastructure is provided in the rice producing areas to enhance rice production by investing in the area of road networks, rice-milling equipment such as pre-cleaners, destoners that separate stones and heavy impurities from grains, hullers, polishers, paddy separators, aspirators and graders to ensure post-harvest product quality.<br>  <strong>Originality/value</strong> – These findings offer a far-reaching approach to enhance the production of local rice in Ghana, in the quest to achieve food security. Old-fashioned agricultural methods are simply not sustainable enough to achieve food security for a rapidly growing population; hence, innovation is the way to go to achieved food security by investing in the agricultural sector. </p>

scholarly journals Land Tenure System and Agricultural Productivity in a Selected Area of Bangladesh

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmuda Nasrin ◽  
M Taj Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Tenant Farmers ◽  
Boro Rice

The relative efficiency of farming under tenancy systems in Bangladesh was measured in this study. Thirty cash tenants and 30 share tenants were randomly selected for data collection through field survey method from Narayanpur and Bhabokhali villages under Sadar upazila of Mymensingh district. The functional analysis of the study was based on Boro rice. The land tenancy situation in rural Bangladesh was explored in this study with a reasonable high incidence of owners who cultivate their own land in comparison to owner-cum-tenants and tenants. A number of tenurial arrangements including sharing agreements were also revealed in the study villages. Share tenant farmers earned significantly lower net return (Tk. 19,252.18) than the cash tenant farmers (Tk. 22,815.89) from Boro rice production. However, Boro rice production was profitable from the viewpoint of both tenant operators. Finally, the study tested and confirmed that all the explanatory variables (key production inputs) included in the Cobb- Douglas revenue type production function model were important for explaining the variations in gross returns under both tenancy arrangements. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pa.v22i1-2.16479 Progress. Agric. 22(1 & 2): 181-192, 2011

scholarly journals LAND TENURE SYSTEM DALAM MELINDUNGI LAHAN PERTANIAN PANGAN BERKELANJUTAN DAN KEDUDUKANNYA DALAM HUKUM AGRARIA NASIONAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 785
Author(s):  
Anita Kamilah ◽  
Yuyun Yulianah
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
The Stability

By the increasing of the population and the economic structural development, the need of land for non-agricultural activities are likely to rise. This phenomenon leads a conversion of agricultural land, especially the unavoidable paddy. The causative factors of agricultural land conversion are: (1) Population; (2) The need of non-agricultural soil; (3) Economy; (4) Socio-cultural; (5) Autonomous Region; and (6) Lack of regulation. The Impacts of this conversion not only threatening food security but also interfering the stability of the economy, social, political, and development of the general population. There are three ways in controlling the use of land, they are: (1) Regulation; (2) Acquisition and management, those are perfecting the system and rules of land selling and the perfection of land tenure patterns (Land Tenure system) in supporting efforts towards maintaining agricultural land; and (3) Incentive and charges.Keywords: Agricultural land conversion, Food Security, Land Tenure System

scholarly journals Impact of Land Tenure System on Socio-Economic Characteristics in Selected Areas of Mymensingh

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Z Haque ◽  
T Jinan
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Fixed Amount ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Average Annual Income

The present study aims at investigating into the existing land tenure system of Dorirampur, Jhairpar and Goisa para at Traishal Upazila of Mymensingh District. Keeping in view the objectives 70 samples were randomly selected. Survey method was followed to collect required data. Sampled farmers belonged to six tenurial groups. Out of 70 respondents 34, 22, 16, 7, 10 and 11 percent of total were owner operators, part operators, part tenants, part operator-cum-part tenants, tenants and absentee landowners respectively during the study year. In the study, out of 70 respondents 67 percent were owner operator, 33 percent of them were tenant operators. The selected farmers in the study area practiced three types of share cropping system: i) fifty-fifty share cropping, ii) forty-sixty share cropping and iii) fixed amount of paddy payment. The average annual income were found to be Tk. 97096, 128267, 5215, 76340, 35871 and 113563 respectively for owner operator, part operators, part tenants, part operator-cum-part tenants, tenants and absentee landowner. Analysis of annual income reveals a positive relationship between tenure category and that of annual income during the study area.J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 10(2): 133-142 2017

scholarly journals Determinants of Rice Farmers’ Risk-attitudes in Rural Ghana: An Operational Domain Scale Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame Asiam Addey
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Risk Attitudes ◽  
Agricultural Insurance ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Rural Ghana ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greater Accra Region

Production of rice in Ghana has been marred by various production risks which reduce the yield potentials of farmers. The introduction of agricultural insurance presents an opportunity to mitigate these risks. However, individual preferences for risk-mitigating strategies are dependent on their risk attitudes. And this is affected by a broad spectrum of characteristics. This study, therefore analysed the determinants of the risk attitudes of rice farmers in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Their risk-attitudes were obtained using an operational domain-scaled statement set. Majority of the respondents (96.14%) were found to be risk averse. The gender, household size, land tenure system and the ratio of non-farm income to rice farm income were found to significantly affect the probability of risk neutrality whiles marital status, land tenure system and the probability of failure to achieve target yields were observed to significantly influence the probability of being risk-loving. Further study is recommended to identify the relationship between these risk attitudes and adoption of crop insurance.

Discourse on women and land tenure in Ghana: does a matrilineal land tenure system make a difference for women?

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Nancy Kankam Kusi ◽  
Frank Mintah ◽  
Valentina Nyame ◽  
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu ◽  
Menare Royal Mabakeng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Social System ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
System P ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Cultural Negotiations ◽  
Female Power

Abstract This chapter highlights that matriarchy and matrilineal social orientations are not inherent guarantees of women's access to land but can reinforce male dominance over land ownership, control, and access to land. It notes that social structures and norms are subject to change and, in this instance, colonialization and modernization have acted as the two key influencers in reshaping Asante matriarchy. The researchers argue that the continuous interplay of cultural negotiations within the traditional matriarchal regime have caused a drastic transformation in Asante land tenure system which have fuelled unequal access to land. In effect, a postcolonial Asante woman is no longer guaranteed land tenure security from her family or community and more likely to face the harsh realities of landlessness. The chapter does not assume equal access to land hitherto but notes that the inequality gap has been further widened by the weakening of 'female power' in the matriarchal social system.

scholarly journals When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 416
Author(s):  
David Asante Edwin ◽  
Evam Kofi Glover ◽  
Edinam K. Glover
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Title Registration ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
And Control

Development practice over recent years in much of Africa prioritized formalization of land policies deemed to enhance better handling and use of land as an asset for social development. Following this trend, land reform policy in Ghana was based on a pluralistic legal system in which both the customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist by law. The primary research question for this study was the following: What implications emerge when customary land tenure system and the statutory system of land ownership and control co-exist in law? The study discussed the prospects and challenges of land title registration and the meaning of the new organizing concept in land ownership and administration among the people of Dagbon in the northern region of Ghana. The principal aim of the study was to assess the challenges of the implementation of a modern land registration system over a deeply traditional one. A qualitative research methodology was used and included qualitative descriptive analysis. This descriptive-analytical study was carried out to investigate opinions on the implications of the merger and preferred options for redress of any systemic challenges. It employed Focused Group Discussions (FGDs) to supplement in-depth interviews. Interviews were conducted among 40 key participants within formal and informal institutions including officials from both the Land Commission and Town and Country Planning Departments. Purposeful sampling was employed, and an interview guide was developed and used for collecting the data. Data were analyzed using a thematic approach. The results showed that in this structural reform, the ‘allodial title’ holder was much more trusted for tenure security because of the traditional legitimacy of the King as the sole owner and controller of land. The title registration system therefore principally served the secondary purpose as additional security. The findings indicate that in the circumstance where the law was seen as pliable, the policy engendered blurred and confusing effects that deepened the sense of ambiguity and outcomes were sometimes contradictory. We argued that the crossroads presented challenges that were novel and engendered innovative thinking for more appropriate solutions. The study revealed that policy reforms must be tailor-made to the physical, social, cultural and economic settings.

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