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Title: | Agrarian Change in Kusasi, North-East Ghana |
Author: | Webber, Paul |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 66 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 437-457 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | population growth agricultural development environment Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1160961 |
Abstract: | This article examines the nature of agrarian change in the Kusasi area of northeast Ghana, focusing on the link between population growth and agrarian change. The context in which population growth is proceeding in Kusasi is presented as significantly different from that of other parts of tropical Africa where population growth has been recognized as the dynamic bringing about more productive and sustainable systems. In Kusasi's peripheral and subsistence-oriented economy population growth has led to increased pressure on the biological resources of the region. The permanent compound farming system of the area is now increasingly unable to provide sufficient subsistence for household needs, and, although expansion of farmland into areas recently freed from onchocerciasis is taking place, this is interpreted as merely a temporary respite in the interrelated processes of continuing environmental degradation and declining productivity under the prevailing agricultural system. The article raises the question of how, in the absence of progressive change brought about by population growth, development for regions like Kusasi is to be envisaged. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |