Forest Protection and the Rights of Cocoa Farmers in Western Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16767160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippa England (0000-0003-2931-7119, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-176 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021855300011220 |
| OpenAlex | W2058619768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
The history of illegal farming activities in certain forest reserves in the Western Region of Ghana demonstrates the magnitude of the problems facing conservationists, administrators and forestry personnel i n developing countries. The objective of this article is to explore briefly some of those problems and to reflect on the value of a human rights approach to environmental protection in the light of events in Western Ghana. First, the article presents evidence of the scale of illegal farming i n some forest reserves in the Western Region, before discussing the various initiatives taken since the 1960s to reserve and protect forest land in this Region. The administrative, legal and political obstacles to their success are highlighted as is the role played by competing interest groups. The implications of this analysis for the concept of environmental rights is then briefly discussed and alternative proposals for tackling this problem suggested
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Forest management · Forest protection · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio) · Value (mathematics) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Forestry · Law · Mining and Resource Management
Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming
Contestations, counteractions and equitable conservation – a case study of Ghana's Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects
Ghana’s landscape approach to Redd
Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana
Tree Planting, Sustainable Development and the Roles of Law in Bongo, North-East Ghana
Food-security corridors
| Citations per year | 0.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |