Crop Failures, Food Shortages and Colonial Famine Relief Policies in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast

doi:https://doi.org/10.3368/gs.6.1.5

Article10.3368/gs.6.1.5

Crop Failures, Food Shortages and Colonial Famine Relief Policies in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast

Holger Weiss-2003-01-01-Ghana Studies

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A lot of ink has been utilized on the topic of food shortages and famines in Africa. Since the early 1970s, when a devastating drought caused widespread famine all over the Sahel region in Africa, the image of the continent has been of one doomed by the negative consequences of nature and human

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A lot of ink has been utilized on the topic of food shortages and famines in Africa. Since the early 1970s, when a devastating drought caused widespread famine all over the Sahel region in Africa, the image of the continent has been of one doomed by the negative consequences of nature and human

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FamineEconomic shortageFood shortageColonialismGold coastGeographyCropDevelopment economics

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