<p>In rural West Africa, land is a fundamental asset for well-being, livelihood, and food security. It is also a region where human mobility and migration affects how different cultural groups interact in everyday land-based practices, including farming. In Ghana’s forest-savanna transition zone; a region vital for agrarian development, the arrival of migrants from the north has made communities more socially and culturally pluralistic, with different ethnic groups, land tenure arrangements, farming practices, and social norms in circulation. This can create both frictions and synergies in how land is governed, accessed, and used; yet the degree to which it alters land-based relations is not well understood. Using ethnographic data from three agrarian communities – Afefreso, Kokofu, and Densi – located in Atebubu traditional territory, we investigate these dynamics guided by a multi-theoretical lens that draws on political ecology, political economy (of land), and social practice. We find that land tenure arrangements, ethnicity, social organizing, and farmer-to-farmer observations set the stage for how migrant and local farmers interact and relate to one another, which in turn affect patterns of land use and the application of farming knowledge. In particular, migrants and locals are finding ways to circumvent customary tenure arrangements that would typically restrict access to land (for migrants), changing the landscape of tenure politics and power dynamics in the process. Based on these findings, we discuss how change triggered by rural-to-rural migration presents an opportunity to analyze and debate how agrarian societies, and their relationship to land, might themselves shift as different cultures, practices, and knowledge systems converge.</p>