Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
| Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong is a PhD Candidate in Geography/International Development at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. His dissertation focuses on a political ecology of food security and smallholder farmer adaptation to climate change in north-western Ghana. He holds a Bachelors degree in International Development Planning (1st Class Honours) from KNUST-Ghana. His Masters degree in Community and Environmental Planning was conferred by The University of Montana-Missoula, USA. Email: hnyantak@uwo.ca |
Research on Land-grabbing:
Social Resistance to ‘Land Grabbing’ in Northern Ghana: A Class Dynamics and Gendered Analyses
The purpose of this study is to contribute to an understanding of whether and how marginalized local communities are attempting to resist appropriation of their lands by transnational investors. The study will examine the character and dynamics of local resistance at multiple scales - from the household, community, to national levels. It will draw upon an agrarian political economy approach to answer the following key questions: What kinds of organizational forms, tactics and moral vocabularies define community resistance to ‘land grabbing’? How does identity, both collective and individual, shape various forms of resistance to ‘land grabbing’? In cases where communities vociferously resist ‘land grabbing’, what constraints do they face, especially given already overlapping conditions of social, economic, and political marginality? What resources can communities draw upon, not only to challenge the authority of unjust land appropriation, but also to transform the relations of power that undergird it? And finally, what are the gender dynamics in various forms of resistance to land appropriation? The empirical analysis will be derived from a case study of two villages in northern Ghana.
