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Land Access, Agricultural Land Use Changes and Narratives about Land Degradation in the Savannahs of Northeast Ghana during the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

机译：殖民地前和殖民时期的加纳东北部大草原土地利用，农业土地利用变化和土地退化叙事

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This paper discusses the evolution of socio-cultural and political relations that defined access to, use, and management of land resources in northeast Ghana during the pre-colonial and colonial periods. The aim is to historicise current meta-narratives about degradation of the natural landscape in the rural savannahs of northeast Ghana. Many of those degradation narratives take their root in the past during the colonial era, but the conceptual underpinnings of those narratives have remained essentially a-historical, a-political, and a-cultural. This paper shows that the organisation of space and land uses in pre-colonial communities in northeast Ghana was governed by certain traditional knowledge systems which were ignored by the colonial authorities. While narratives about landscape degradation by natives were propagated by the colonial government to justify a need to preserve the environment, their attempts to control land management matters were essentially for political and economic reasons. The study concludes that current policy frameworks on desertification and land management need to move beyond inherent historical biases. Rather, attention ought to be given to critical historical reflections on the dynamic processes by which variations in socio-economic relations of resource access/use, farming practices, land tenure arrangements, and political agendas interact with changes in the biophysical environment to produce different land cover trajectories over time.
机译：本文讨论了社会文化和政治关系的演变，它定义了加纳东北部在前殖民时期和殖民时期的土地资源的获取，使用和管理。目的是对加纳东北部农村大草原自然景观退化的最新元叙事进行历史化。这些退化叙事中的许多叙事起源于殖民时代的过去，但这些叙事的概念基础基本上仍然是a-历史，a-政治和a-文化的。本文表明，加纳东北部前殖民地社区的空间和土地利用组织受到某些传统知识体系的控制，而这些知识体系被殖民当局忽略了。虽然殖民地政府传播了关于土著人的景观退化的叙述，以证明有必要保护环境，但他们控制土地管理事务的尝试主要是出于政治和经济原因。研究得出的结论是，当前有关荒漠化和土地管理的政策框架需要超越固有的历史偏见。相反，应注意对动态过程的批判性历史反思，通过这种动态过程，资源获取/使用，耕作方式，土地使用权安排和政治议程的社会经济关系的变化与生物物理环境的变化相互作用，从而产生不同的土地随着时间的推移覆盖轨迹。

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