Kakum landscape

Ghana
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Kakum landscape

Ghana
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The Landscape

The Kakum landscape is located in the Assin South District of Ghana's Central Region, which also constitute the boundaries of the landscape. The Assin South district falls within the moist evergreen and moist semi-deciduous forest zones. It is characterized by an undulating topography with an average height of 200 m above sea level. The landscape a has a well protected area of tropical high forest, surrounded by a mosaic of cocoa farms, food crop farms, settlements and other farming systems. The landscape is home a population of approximately 104,244 people living in rural communities and small towns.  Smallscale farming and forestry related livelihoods predominate.  The landscape has a partnership (consortium) made up of government, civil society and private organisations. The goal of the consortium partners working together in the landscape is to transform the Kakum HIA cocoa-forest landscape to a more sustainable, agroforestry-based cocoa production system.The landscape has seen minor shifts in vegetation cover over the last two decades due to changing land use patterns. As of 2015, open forest remained the predominant land use type, but cropland (cocoa and food crops) had become the second largest land use in most part of the landscape. The major driver of the landscape’s economy and land-use is cocoa production. Over the decades there have been fluctuations in the global price of cocoa which have also affected production. Kakum National Park harbors a rich diversity of biodiversity, including the largest population of forest elephants in Ghana. The park headquarters is also a top tourist attraction in the country. See More
The Kakum landscape is located in the Assin South District of Ghana's Central Region, which also constitute the boundaries of the landscape. The Assin South district falls within the moist evergreen and moist semi-deciduous forest zones. It is characterized by an undulating topography with an average height of 200 m above sea level. The landscape a has a well protected area of tropical high forest, surrounded by a mosaic of cocoa farms, food crop farms, settlements and other farming systems. The landscape is home a population of approximately 104,244 people living in rural communities and small towns.  Smallscale farming and forestry related livelihoods predominate.  The landscape has a partnership (consortium) made up of government, civil society and private organisations. The goal of the consortium partners working together in the landscape is to transform the Kakum HIA cocoa-forest landscape to a more sustainable, agroforestry-based cocoa production system.The landscape ha ... See More

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