The Tide Comes Back In

Edward Carr

Chapter Chapter 7 in Delivering Development, 2011, pp 97-116 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The story of my involvement with Dominase and Ponkrum nearly ended with the gradual reoccupation of two marginal villages in Ghana’s Central Region. In 2003 I accepted a position in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. I began to write up my data and conclusions through my 2000 field season, with an eye toward closing up the project and moving on to something new. But I was missing some data that was useful for my interpretations of events in these villages. So, in the summer of 2004 I went back to tie up these loose ends. As part of this last field season, I ordered some satellite imagery of the villages and the farms around them in order to map and inventory farms, which would provide data to fill in missing information about agricultural practice in the area. My work in Dominase and Ponkrum seemed to be coming together in a nice, neat bundle. However, as I have lectured many students on the unpredictability of fieldwork, I should have known better.

Keywords: Commercial Activity; Farm Size; Tree Crop; Tenure System; ELIV ERING (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230319974_7

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