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Agrarian Change in Northern Ghana: Public Investment, Capitalist Farming and Famine

In: Rural Development in Tropical Africa

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  • Andrew Shepherd

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There has recently been a famine of unprecedented proportions in north-eastern Ghana, and there have been extensive food shortages throughout the north. Famine and food shortage come in the wake of considerable change in the pattern of development of the north during the last ten years. This paper attempts to interpret these changes, and the disasters which have followed, in the light of the north’s history and of its changing position in the national and international economic context.

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  • Andrew Shepherd, 1981. "Agrarian Change in Northern Ghana: Public Investment, Capitalist Farming and Famine," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Judith Heyer & Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams (ed.), Rural Development in Tropical Africa, chapter 7, pages 168-192, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05318-6_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_7
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    1. Andrew Wardell, D. & Lund, Christian, 2006. "Governing Access to Forests in Northern Ghana: Micro-Politics and the Rents of Non-Enforcement," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(11), pages 1887-1906, November.
    2. Wiemers, Alice, 2015. "A “Time of Agric”: Rethinking the “Failure” of Agricultural Programs in 1970s Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 104-117.
    3. Kansanga, Moses & Andersen, Peter & Atuoye, Kilian & Mason-Renton, Sarah, 2018. "Contested commons: Agricultural modernization, tenure ambiguities and intra-familial land grabbing in Ghana," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 215-224.

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