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10 Table 4.1: Characteristics of Settlements, indicating main research themes Settlement Ecological zone Dominant Ethnic Group (note: migrants of various origins – mostly from the Upper West – found in all settlements) 1. Subinso Savanna-forest mosaic Brong and Deg (Mo) landowners, with many migrants, mostly from the Upper West. 2. Atuna Savanna-forest mosaic Dagaaba migrants from Upper West Region Main research interests 1. Former centre of agricultural modernisation; lands extensively cleared & stumped; soils now exhausted. 2. Farmers moving into cassava and groundnuts; crop diversification. 1. Fuelwood and charcoal as secondary income sources for migrant women. 2. These recently banned by chief (ref. party political conflict) 3. Buoku Semi-deciduous forest fringe Migrants from Dormaa – as cocoa farmers; Migrants from Upper West (originally cocoa labourers); Some indigenes from Wenchi 1. Settled by Dormaa migrants for cocoa in 1920s. 2. The only settlement with evidence of major land constraint. 3. Only settlement with sharecropping. 4. Also taungya, encroachment on forest reserve 5. Family lands mainly farmed by women. 4. Weila Savanna-forest mosaic. Nafana (Banda) immigrants (from colonial times), in Deg (Mo) area 1. Well within the parkland (yam) zone, and thus dependent on environment rich in small trees/coppices for staking. 2. Land still in significant surplus. 10
11 3. Recent disputes over charcoal production, involving conflict between local youths and Sissala charcoal burners (now migrated elsewhere). 4. Crops: Yam and maize production. Conflicts between environmental management and livelihoods rights (yam/charcoal) 5. Mansie Savanna-forest mosaic Deg (Mo) Ditto (per Weila) 6. Kokoago Forest-savanna mosaic Short distance migrants mainly from near Techiman, originally settled to farm cocoa. 1. Ex-cocoa lands, adjacent to defunct irrigation project and close to Wenchi State Farms, and more recent (now collapsed) GNRC mechanised farm. Local farmers have since moved onto stumped lands for maize cultivation. 2. Mechanized maize cultivation practiced by some farmers, with chemical inputs. 3. Local systems for intensive tomato cultivation. 4. Division of lands between men (grassland areas) and women (forest lands). 11
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71 Geography, University of Ghana,
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Annex 1: 1 Annex 1: A brief history
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Annex 3: 9 The Forestry Service has
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Appendix to Annex 3: 8 c) Tradition
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Annex 4: 1 Annex 4: The Way Forward
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