Pressures on an intensive irrigated cash-crop system in coastal Ghana

Porter, Gina; Young, Einir; Dzietror, Akrofi

doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(97)00015-8

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“…This raises the question as to whether they were using the most appropriate chemical in the right dose for cabbages, and whether chemicals are getting into the human food chain, or the human/animal drinking water supply. There appears to have been no attempt at introducing cropping regulations of the kind found around Keta lagoon in Ghana, one of the other major vegetable producing regions of West Africa, where traditional regulation of shallot cropping by the imposition of closed seasons and planting dates has been strictly enforced for at least 50 years in order to reduce dangers of infestation (Porter et al . 1997).…”

Section: The Vegetable Production Systemmentioning

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Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small‐scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991–2001

Porter

Harris

Lyon³

et al. 2003

Geographical Journal

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This paper explores changing socio-environmental interactions in the vegetable producing areas of the Jos Plateau over the decade 1991-2001. It considers the pressures of market forces and ethnic competition and the tensions which arise as interactions between the two are played out in a fragile physical, social and institutional environment. The region has seen a remarkable expansion in irrigated vegetable production, as dry season surveys in 1991 and 2001 attest. Local farmers appear extremely positive in their perceptions of change, pointing not only to expanded production, but also to other improvements, like growing percentages of children in school and improved transport. But behind this rosy view of change there are tensions and a series of unresolved questions which may soon have to be addressed. We examine the changing nature of socio-environmental interactions over the decade and ask whether and how current levels of production can be sustained in the context of a currently largely unregulated production system and growing competition for land. Given the important role of the Plateau as a source of temperate fruit and vegetables in West Africa, these questions have significance far beyond the Plateau region itself.

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Section: The Vegetable Production Systemmentioning

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Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small‐scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991–2001

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Lyon³

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“…Most of the peninsula is covered by sandy soils but closer to the lagoon edge there are heavy saline clays. The preparation of the sand beds for shallot production at the lagoon side is done through importation of sand from the sea side of the bar (Porter, Young and Dzietror 1997).…”

Section: The Geography and Local Economy Of The Keta Peninsulamentioning

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“…The major crop grown was coconut on the sea side and near the marshes on the lagoon side, but a large acreage of coconut was affected by the Cape Saint Paul Wilt disease (a lethal yellowing disease affecting coconut), which led to a massive decline in coconut production (Addo et al 2018;Sinnadurai 1973). This, combined with the perennial difficulties caused by low water levels in Keta Lagoon and the associated decline in fish stocks, spearheaded the interest in commercial shallot farming in and around the peninsula (Porter et al 1997). The 1930s onwards saw massive and extensive re-filling and reclamation of the marshy land that had been left by the action of the sea and along the lagoon.…”

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“…The cultivation of shallots was initially restricted to the lagoon side owing to the fact that the water table is relatively high there and the shallow wells of 1.5m to 2.0m are adequate to tap into the aquifer. Over time, due to the shortage of land, many farmers extended cultivation to the seaward side of the bar (Porter et al 1997). The all-embracing character and speed with which the shallot industry developed led Ocloo (1996) to describe the process of intensified shallot production between 1930 and 1955 as a 'revolution'.…”

Section: The Geography and Local Economy Of The Keta Peninsulamentioning

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Forms, Prevalence and Drivers of Children’s Work and Children’s Harmful Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana

Yeboah¹,

Egyir²

2020

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This paper synthesises the available literature on the forms, prevalence and drivers of children’s work, and evidence of harm associated with children’s work in shallot production on the Keta Peninsula, Ghana. What emerges is that children have historically played, and continue to play, a key role in this horticultural system and their work contribution is structured by both age and gender. Desires to support parents and earn income drive children’s involvement, and children’s work has potential negative effects on their education.

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“…In view of the fact that Ghana completed the VRP by 1972 without environmental impact assessment (EIA) places a burden on government today for correcting old problems [6], [10], [11]. Another major factor that influences the climate as well as shortand long-term weather conditions is land use and land cover.…”

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Management of watersheds with Landsat TM data: a case study of the Volta River in Ghana

Twumasi

Manu²,

Coleman³

IGARSS 2003. 2003 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37477)

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Notwithstanding the huge national achievement of Ghana supplying the main focus of its independence in the early years, the Volta River Project continues to have many negative consequences which impact large parts of the country. Remote sensing methods are introduced to show how information about these impacts may be obtained and used in sensible management programs. The monitoring literature suggests that a surprising range of relevant and remotely sensed information may be provided. In this study, this information is discussed and evaluated for its significance and its potential value for the evolution of Ghanaian policy.

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Pressures on an intensive irrigated cash-crop system in coastal Ghana

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small‐scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991–2001

Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small‐scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991–2001

Forms, Prevalence and Drivers of Children’s Work and Children’s Harmful Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana

Management of watersheds with Landsat TM data: a case study of the Volta River in Ghana

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