Social and economic impacts of agricultural productivity intensification: The case of brush park fisheries in Lake Volta

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 102, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Béné, Christophe ^a   Obirih Opareh, Nelson ^b  

^a WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^b CSIR Science and Technology Policy Research Institute   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Enclosure of the commons; Inland fisheries; Poverty; Rural development; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INLAND FISHERY; INNOVATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; GHANA; LAKE VOLTA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 70049083770     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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