Conclusion

The multidisciplinary integrated approach has much promise as a cost effective method of studying biophysical and agricultural characteristics of the landscape. A key to its successful implementation lies in close cooperation and mutual understanding among the different specialists constituting the multidisciplinary research team.

Note

I. E.A. Gyasi (geography: agricultural land-use systems, rural change); G.T. Agyepong (geography: land-use ecology, remote sensing); E. Ardayfim-Schandorf (geography: gender and environmental change); L. Enu-Kwesi (botany: plant physiology); J.S. Nabila (geography: population, medical geography); E. Owusu-Bennoah (agriculture: soil chemistry and fertility).