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On behalf of the Publications Committee, I would like to thank certain individuals who contributed to making this publication possible: BenWhite who.took-initialresponsibilityfor-handling themanuscript;Tom Boyd, who gave expert opinion on its content; Reinke Vercruijsse Zwanenburg, who worked over it in detail; Paul Haanen, who helped to correct the text; and Jean Sanders, who edited it. Ken Post Chairman, ISS Publications Committee December 1987 iv
I A BRIEF INTRODUCTION 10 THE PROBLEMATIC: GHANAIAN PEASANTS AND THE STAGNATION OF AGRICULTURE On the very day of writing these words, the FAO has given the alarm on the food situation in Africa: in East and South as well as in West Africa serious food shortages threaten or already prevail. In Somalia, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique people are dying from starvation; only immediate steps can prevent famine from breaking out in another 24 countries (De Waarheid, 10.3.1981). It is not merely that all these countries are faced with a deficit of almost one mIllion tons of grain - for the current year their needs are estimated at 2.7 million tons of which so far 1.8 million tons have been promised - but also that they are unable to pay for any more imports. The rising food imports - in 1981 as much as 43 percent higher than in 1980 -leave no doubt about the bitter truth: that Africa is now unable to feed itself and that, accordingly, all the declarations and exhortations of governments as well as the endless confering of bureaucrats and the voluminous writings of experts on the consequence and urgency of agricultural development, have come to nothing. We must conclude to outright failure in the light of the set objectives for agricultural policy, objectives which, with minor variations from one country to another, state that agriculture should produce enough food to feed the people at reasonable prices as well as progressively meet their basic nutritional requirements, while at the same time agricultural productivity should be raised sharply both to release and generate resources for industrial development. (Five-Year Development Plan 1975-1980 Ghana, Part 11,1977: 2) This failure to develop agriculture is a global one: none of the major underdeveloped regions of the world have reported an acceleration of growth in agricultural output or, in particular, of food production.' During the past decades, however, a clear acceleration in wheat production
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Notes 1. The first edition of Mensa
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v THEABURA-DUNKWA FAMILY LANDS AND
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anyone to acquire a right to farmla
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Equally, the land held (or claimed)
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eiterated that, consequent on their
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admitting that Nana Quansah was the
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emotions than anything else because
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Cape Coast where the case was down
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for him must be cancelled: It must
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Adwenadze: present-day descendants
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TableS: The Nnamfodo Lands and Thei
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It may be useful to point out that
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land (specifically: Kukubir 1 and 2
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6 . Swearing an oath to an Akan mea
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20. As we have explained in Ch.I1,
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homogeneous in terms of quality (gr
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tion of sample cases over the four
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(Dawurampon) is all there is availa
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4. Auxiliary Rules for Allocating F
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Table 11: Farmers on Family Land of
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portion oftheir own family land may
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From Table 14 we see that apart fro
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together with annual tenancies at l
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- a proportionally larger part of t
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Hypothesis 4: Ignoring the uncultiv
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in the part played in the allocatio
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approval and cooperation of the oth
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7. 'Total Acreage' in Thble 17 refe
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APPENDIX A SOME NOTES ON MFANTSE PO
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1944 - and by then Ghana, or rather
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APPENDIXB OVERVIEW OF THE ARUBA-DUN
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NSONAMBUSUA 30. Kodju Dadzie Ekrofu
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APPENDIXC RANK CORRELATION BETWEEN
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RANK CORRELATION: Calculation rho =
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TnbleA.l Allocation of Farming Righ
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APPENDIXE THE FIELDWORK AND ITS IMP
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extent to which they were under cul
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people could not acquire land throu
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2. Results of the farm operations q
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Casely Hayford, J.E. (1903) Gold Co
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O'Brien, J. (1979) The Political Ec
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