Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Preface / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Contents / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Introduction / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Land Policies and Land Governance: Exploring the Situation / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- An Overview of Catholic Social Teaching and the Church as a Non-State Actor in Ghana / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Reflections on a Theoretical and Value Framework: Travelling the Empowerment Path? / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Empirical Evidence from the Field / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- The Participants’ Perception of Participation, Empowerment and Land Administration in the Area under Study / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Assessing Empowerment and Negotiating-Power Dynamics among the Stakeholders in the Land-Deal Process in the Selected Communities / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Enhancing Community Empowerment in the Local Context: The Role of the Catholic Church / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Research Findings and General Conclusion / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah -- Interview Codes / Emmanuel Zumabakuro Dassah.

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Imagine having a property that your family has been building for generations. One day, a foreign company submits documents and demands ownership of the land. What should the village community do about it? In Ghana, land has increasingly become an object of trade as a result of new growing, agriculture-based value chains for global biofuel markets. The ethical choices we make about land and its use are at the core of this book. It investigates the challenges of land acquisition for biofuels production exploring the concept of empowerment and Christian ethics within the socio-political power settings of the people of Northern Ghana. It thus considers the historical, theological, ethical and sociological foundations of the Ghanaian land issue.