“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry's
theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book …

The rise of new powers in development has generated much debate on the extent to which
South–South Cooperation (SSC) constitutes a new paradigm of development more relevant …

This paper argues that large-scale land appropriation is displacing subsistence farmers and
reworking agrarian social relations in northern Ghana. The recent wave of farmland …

Climate change and land degradation result in decreasing yields and crop failures in
Northern Ghana and have caused further impoverishment of Ghana's poorest region …

This paper examines decline in cocoa production at three historical moments: Trinidad in the
early 18th century, Brazil in the first half of the 20th century, and Ghana in the recent …

An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa.
Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso …

No other country comes to mind more than Ghana when one speaks of cocoa. Likewise, one
cannot think of Ghana without thinking of its cocoa sector, which offers livelihoods for over …

Drawing on two decades of research this social and political history of North-Western Ghana
traces the creation of new ethnic and territorial boundaries, categories and forms of self …

Shea butter (butyrospermin parkii) has been produced and sold by rural West African
women and circulated on the world market as a raw material for more than a century. Shea …

The report highlights the long history of commodification of land and labour in Ghana, linked
to speculative activities and more recently to the activities of international capital …