Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer groups that facilitate the commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) to address food and nutritional security. With the freedom of selecting the choices of market outlets,...

The note reviews the cultural role of traditional healers in communities in Ghana, and Zambia, as one of the best hopes for treating, and stemming the spread of AIDS. However, healers rely on medicinal plants which have significantly decreased, as their habitats are lost through deforestation,...

This paper contributes to empirical literature testing the importance of secure formal legal rights for efficient natural resource exploitation and the promotion of economic growth and development. We use an event study methodology to estimate the market response to a series of six landmark...

In the landmark Love decision the High Court by a 4:3 majority found that Indigenous people, due to their ancient connection with the Australian continent, are not ‘aliens’ under s 51(xix) regardless of citizenship status. The judgments revisited ongoing conceptual tensions relating to the...

In a recent article in this series, the author discussed the indigenous principles that undergird the maintenance of social control among Buems of Buem-Kator on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border in the Buem Traditional Area in the Jasikan District in the Volta Region of Ghana. The current...

It is often stated that indigenous law confers no property rights in land. Okoth-Ogenda reconceptualized indigenous land rights by debunking the myth that indigenous land rights systems are necessarily 'communal' in nature, that 'ownership' is collective and that the community as an entity makes...