Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.