A Forest Beyond the Trees: Tree Cutting in Rural Ghana

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Dei, George J. S.
Conference:	Common Property Conference, the Second Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Conf. Date:	September 26-30
Date:	1991
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5431
Sector:	Forestry
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	deforestation land tenure and use rural affairs forestry sustainability IASC
Abstract:	"This paper examines the complexity of human forces involved in the processes of tree cutting in a Ghanaian forest region. It provides evidence to link the indiscriminate tree cutting activities in some local communities to the gradual loss of communal control over land and the replacement of kin group control with state property regimes. The author points to the interrelated factors of the state's promotion of an export-led development strategy and the intensification of agricultural commercialization, as well as household and group differential and unequal access to land as all having a deleterious impact on local traditions of sustainable forestry."

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