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POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages 87-106Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11111-017-0277-z
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Migration; Land tenure; Adaptation; Poverty; Rural livelihoods
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This article focuses on the relationship between in-migration from Northern Ghana and changing land tenure norms in Ghana's central transition zone in Brong Ahafo Region. Using the complex adaptive systems (CAS) theoretical framework, it theorizes this relationship as part of a wider set of co-evolving social and environmental conditions across Brong Ahafo. It presents new qualitative research findings which show differentiated livelihood trajectories for Northern Ghanaian migrant farmers in Brong Ahafo in three case study sites in different districts and links these to migrants' diverse land tenure arrangements under customary tenure regimes in Brong Ahafo. I argue that differentiated outcomes for migrants at rural destinations have implications for the extent to which out-migration from environmentally marginal regions such as Northern Ghana can be viewed as a form of adaptation to environmental change.
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