The political ecology of agricultural history in Ghana - Campbell, Michael O'Neal 1965- (Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part 1. Political ecology: theoretical and international issues -- Chapter 1. Political ecology, its roots and complements, and international environmental issues -- Chapter 2. The physical bases of traditional agriculture in West Africa -- Part 2. Ghana as a case study -- Chapter 3. Traditional agriculture in the per-colonial period -- Chapter 4. The colonial period and the agricultural transition to cash cropping -- Part 3. The post-independence period and the impact of development models on agricultural and environmental systems in Ghana -- Chapter 5. Development planning in the 1950s and 1960s: industrialisation and agricultural modification -- Chapter 6. The period of socio-economic decline: 1970 to 1984 -- Chapter 7. Environmental policy and institutions in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter 8. Gender issues and agro-environmental systems in Ghana -- Conclusions
Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business; NATURE / Natural Resources; Agriculture / Economic aspects; Agriculture / Environmental aspects; Economic development / Environmental aspects; Rural development / Environmental aspects; Geschichte; Landwirtschaft; Umwelt; Wirtschaft; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Ghana -- History; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Ghana -- History; Rural development -- Environmental aspects -- Ghana; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Ghana