893 ACTA UNIVERSITATIS AGRICULTURAE ET SILVICULTURAE MENDELIANAE BRUNENSIS Volume 63 100 Number 3, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201563030893 ANALYSIS OF LAND TENURE SYSTEMS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH PRODUCTIVITY IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN GHANA Libor Grega 1 , Emmanuel Kofi Ankomah 1 , Samuel Antwi Darkwah 2 1 Department of Regional and Business Economics, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Territorial Studies, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic Abstract GREGA LIBOR, ANKOMAH EMMANUEL KOFI, DARKWAH SAMUEL ANTWI. 2015. Analysis of Land Tenure Systems and its Relationship with Productivity in the Agricultural Sector in Ghana. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 63(3): 893–901. The paper assesses the effects of Land Tenure systems and its relationship with agricultural productivity in Ghana. It discusses the complex nature of the Tenure systems and some of the reforms the country has done over the years and standard of living in the rural communities. In its assessments, this paper extracts information from Cross-Section Data and analyse it by applying Chi-square test to show the relationship between Land Tenure Systems and agriculture productivity. The outcome shows that Land Tenure Systems has a direct influence on productivity in Agriculture and can result in poverty and low standard of living among peasant farmers. In view of the problems, the paper discusses the prevalence of the terms, rules and regulations of the land acquisitions process and its repercussions and concludes from the results that Land Tenure Systems is a factor for low productivity in Agribusiness, and makes recommendations for the improvement of the land Tenure Systems to reduce the inherent insecurity. Keywords: land tenure, agriculture, insecurity, development, productivity, poverty INTRODUCTION Literary references are quick to generate lists of common problems that challenge high productivity in the agriculture sector in a less developed country like Ghana but few articles offer suggestions on how to improve it and to gain economic strength with sound land policies that will propel an economic growth with firm connection to the global economy. Land tenure security is one of the factors that some writers has used to explain the poor agricultural productivity in developing countries (Bourdreaux and Sacks, 2009). They stated in their study that one major reform that would help farmers across Africa is to increased attention to problems of land tenure security. In Ghana, the social relations and institutions governing access to and use of land and natural resources, is usually portrayed as customary or statutory (see Agbosu et al., 2007). Land tenure refers to the manner in which land is held or transferred and land tenure (ownership) security refers to whether the land holder perceives that his/her land could be expropriated or not (see Matchaya, 2008). Ghana is located on the Gulf of Guinea, north of the Equator in the West African sub-region with a land area of about 239,460 km 2 . The land is generally low lying. Half of the country is less than 152 meters above sea level. The climate is typically of the tropical type. The eastern coastal belt is warm and comparatively dry, the southwest corner is hot and humid and the north is hot and dry. Average temperatures range from 21 °C to 28 °C (70 to 82 °F). The population of Ghana is about 24,658,823 million (Ghana statistical service report on 2010 population census). The work force is about 11,754,424 million as reported by the Ghana statistical service. Agriculture and fishing representing about 47.9%; industry and transport 16.2%; sales and clerical 19.3%; services