Local resource management in the forest-savanna transition zone: the case of Wenchi District, Ghana.
1997
Afikorah-Danquah, S. | Leach, M.
In Ghana's forest-savanna transition zone, recent ecological debates counterpose the dominant view that human activities cause the progressive change of forests to savanna, with competing views that the forest-savanna boundary is relatively stable, and even that people can assist the formation of forest in savanna. Applying the environmental entitlements approach to people-vegetation interactions in the Wenchi area of Brong Ahafo region, the paper shows that ecological outcomes vary for different parts of the landscape, depending on the particular practices of socially-differentiated land users. The cases of farming by local landowners, farming by immigrants from the north, and charcoal production illustrate how such practices are shaped by diverse local and state-level institutions, especially land and tree tenure arrangements, with implications for current attempts to develop collaborative forms of forest management in Ghana.
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