From "Sacrilege" to Sustainability : Reforestation and Organic Farming in Forikrom, Ghana
Forikrom, a community of 6,000 people in the Techiman District of Ghana, is located in an area of open grassland. The area once produced cocoa, but the practice ended in 1983 after some fires. Further deforestation resulted from inappropriate farmi...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/01/439641/sacrilege-sustainability-reforestation-organic-farming-forikrom-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10834 |
| Summary: | Forikrom, a community of 6,000 people in
the Techiman District of Ghana, is located in an area of
open grassland. The area once produced cocoa, but the
practice ended in 1983 after some fires. Further
deforestation resulted from inappropriate farming methods.
Forikrom has now turned the corner to reforestation of its
environment, but the initiative did not succeed without
significant cultural conflict and could have reached the
level it has without the impetus for new solutions that the
conflict produced. The most important consequences of the
Forikrom initiative have been: a) social comity and b) the
emergence of an environmentally-conscious community that
serves as a model for other towns in the region. |
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