Production pressure and environmental change in the forest-savanna zone of Southern Ghana

Gyasi, Edwin A.; Agyepong, G. T.; Ardayfio‐Schandorf, Elizabeth; Enu-Kwesi, Lewis; Nabila, JS; Owusu‐Bennoah, E.

doi:10.1016/0959-3780(95)00070-5

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“…These logging operations, however, also brought environmental change by depleting the local hardwood supply, removing shade cover for farmers, and altering local precipitation patterns to the point that today less rain falls in Dominase and Ponkrum than two decades ago. This decline in precipitation and loss of shade cover has reduced the fertility of the fields in the vicinity of Dominase and Ponkrum (while there is no local record of rainfall with a fine enough geographic resolution to support or refute these claims, see Gyesi et al (1995), for a description of similarprocesses in another forested part of Ghana) and made the cultivation of cocoa, once a cash crop in this area (Eguafo Abrem Management Committee, 1955), a virtual impossibility. Local farmer Ekow feels that farmers have to struggle to produce a fraction of what The declining state of the local environment and agriculture was compounded in the early 1970s by the closing of the local logging operation.…”

Section: The Changing Construction Of the Household In Dominase And Pmentioning

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Development and the Household: Missing the point?

Carr

2005

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Over the past two decades development has been shifting its focus toward smaller scales and particular problems. As a result, the household has become an increasingly important institution for development, and has come under increased scrunity as development practitioners and scholars seek to better understand this institution's functions and foundations, trying to 'get the household right'. These efforts, rather than clarifying the character and the function of the household, have contributed to its indeterminacy by reifying the very institution they seek to analyse. Arguing that these efforts fundamentally miss the point of examining the household, this paper introduces a different framework of analysis that addresses the household not as a fixed object of research, but as a local construction that embodies flows of power and knowledge both within and transcending the local. Using the example of varying constructions of the household in two villages in Ghana's Central Region, this article illustrates how such an approach allows us to address the various functions of the household as particular embodiments of these flows, an approach that better explains the endurance or ephemerality of these functions. Such an approach provides a stronger foundation for the consideration of how particular constructions of this institution may have troubling implications for issues like gender equity and sustainability.

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Section: The Changing Construction Of the Household In Dominase And Pmentioning

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2005

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“…These threats come not only from exogenous pressures and policy decisions but also from internal stresses, including increased integration into the market economy, increased contact with western cultures, and population pressures (Vivian 1991;Gyasi et al 1995). These forces have in some instances resulted in the degradation and even disappearance of certain natural resources and the traditional management practices that ensured their sustainable utilisation.…”

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“…These forces have in some instances resulted in the degradation and even disappearance of certain natural resources and the traditional management practices that ensured their sustainable utilisation. It has been argued that, as a result of the environmental impact of these forces, forests and the sustainable farming practices associated with them have disappeared to a great extent in tropical Africa, except in isolated localities (Gyasi et al 1995). Extensive habitat destruction, degradation and significant depletion of wildlife, with severe consequences on biodiversity conservation, have also occurred on the continent (Ntiamoa-Baidu 1995).…”

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Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions About the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion

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2010

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“…The lead scientists each recruited small multidisciplinary working teams ("clusters"), and by 1994, when PLEC attracted the attention of the United Nations Environment Programme, some had already achieved useful results (Gyasi et al 1995;Rerkasem and Rerkasem 1995). The teams included a num-5 ber of agricultural and soil scientists and ecologists, but also members of several other disciplines, principally botany, geography, anthropology, and economics.…”

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“…Natural vegetation is characterized by a mosaic of forest and savanna species. The dominance of herbaceous species interspersed by few trees is a measure of the floristic change (Gyasi et al 1995;Enu-Kwesi 1997).…”

Section: South-east Ghana: Gyamfiase-adenya Sekesua-osonson and Amamentioning

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Agrodiversity: learning from farmers across the world

2004

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The United Nations University is an organ of the United Nations established by the General Assembly in 1972 to be an international community of scholars engaged in research, advanced training, and the dissemination of knowledge related to the pressing global problems of human survival, development, and welfare. Its activities focus mainly on the areas of peace and governance, environment and sustainable development, and science and technology in relation to human welfare. The University operates through a worldwide network of research and postgraduate training centres, with its planning and coordinating headquarters in Tokyo.The United Nations University Press, the publishing division of the UNU, publishes scholarly and policy-oriented books and periodicals in areas related to the University's research. AgrodiversityThis book presents part of the findings of the international project "People, Land Management, and Environmental Change", which was initiated in 1992 by the United Nations University. From 1998 to 2002, the project was supported by the Global Environment Facility with the United Nations Environment Programme as implementing agency and the United Nations University as executing agency.The views expressed in this book are entirely those of the respective authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Global Environment Facility, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the United Nations University. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations University. United Nations University PressThe United Nations University, 53-70, Jingumae 5-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-8925, Japan Tel: +81-3-3499-2811 Fax: +81-3-3406-7345 E-mail: sales@hq.unu.edu (general enquiries): press@hq.unu.edu www.unu.edu United Nations University Office in North America 2 United Nations Plaza, Room DC2-2062, New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: +1-212-963-6387 Fax: +1-212-371-9454 E-mail: unuona@ony.unu.edu United Nations University Press is the publishing division of the United Nations University.Cover design by Rebecca S. Neimark, Twenty-Six Letters The United Nations University is an international community of scholars engaged in research, postgraduate training, and dissemination of knowledge in furtherance of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The University's academic activities are coordinated and carried out by the UNU Centre at Tokyo and the research and training centres/programmes located in 17 different places in the world, as well as through a global network of associated and cooperating institutions and scholars. The UNU groups its work within two major thematic areasPeace and Governance and Environment and Sustainable Development. The Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) programme area focuses on the interactions between human activities and the natural environment, in particular the challenges facing developing countries. This book results from one of the ESD projects -the UNU project on P...

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Production pressure and environmental change in the forest-savanna zone of Southern Ghana

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Development and the Household: Missing the point?

Development and the Household: Missing the point?

Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions About the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion

Agrodiversity: learning from farmers across the world

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