Agrarische Organisationsformen für den Binnenmarkt bestimmter Kulturen im Waldgürtel Ghanas

Abstract: The basic industry in Ghana (formerly, the Gold Coast), is agriculture, which is carried on pre dominantly by small peasant farmers. Hitherto, a great deal of work has been devoted to investigating methods and means of production of cash-crops, while the study of the importance of food-farming in the local exchange economy of the country has been, by comparison, neglected. This paper is an attempt to outline briefly the more important aspects under which the system of land rotation, with bush and forest fallow, is organised in the forest belt; special emphasis is given to the important factors of labour, labour migration and land-tenure. The present development of the system of land-tenure towards individual holdings reflects very clearly the spread of social changes from the urban centres of population into the rural areas. There is, for example, the slow change from the traditional matrilineal plural inheritance to a more simple patrilineal system. Insecurity of title and, as a r.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1210

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Agrarische Organisationsformen für den Binnenmarkt bestimmter Kulturen im Waldgürtel Ghanas ; volume:11 ; number:3 ; year:1957 ; Erdkunde ; 11, Heft 3 (1957)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Manshard, Walther

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1957.03.05
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291232300.740919835578
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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