The new frontier : farmer responses to land degradation : a West African study / Kojo Sebastian Amanor.

By: Publication details: Geneva : UNRISD ; London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, c1994.Description: xii, 244 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1856492423
  • 1856492427 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.14 20 AMA
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Contents
1. Environmental policy
Environmental techno-centrism and the globalization of research
Popular participation in research
Knowledge, commodity and political economy
Popular perception of the environment

2. Political economy of the frontier in the Ghana forest zone
Frontier and margins
The forest of Ghana
Early settlement patterns

3. The frontier in Manya Krobo District
Early history
Land purchase and frontier expansion
Frontier farming

4. Condition of agriculture production
Upper Manya Kroba survey
The house hold in production
Land leasing and sharecropping

5. Adapting to changing enviroments
Natural resources and human thoughts
Economic uses of human land
Fuelwood

6. Dynanic of land and fellow ecology
An ecological perspective of agriculture
General principles of bush falloing in Krobo
Land degredation

7. Regenarating old frontier District
Adaptation popular enviromental perception and social structure
The frontier and colonial development
Regenarating old frontier district




Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-238) and index.

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