A Forest Beyond the Trees: Tree Cutting in Rural Ghana

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1991

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"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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deforestation, land tenure and use, rural affairs, forestry, sustainability, IASC

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