Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana

Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining power, security, and independence. A significant body of research links women's landownership to their empowerment . Given this body of work, it"s easy to imagine landownership as a direct means of achieving sovereignty for women, especially in developing countries where men are generally much more likely to own land than women. But our recent study in Land Use Policy suggests that the relationship between agricultural landownership and gender equity may be more complicated.