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Gotfried T. Agyepong, with the assistance of Sosthenes K Kufogbe

The Yensiso-Sekesua-Amanase study areas lie in the dry, semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana in the southern marginal and the inner zone subtypes (Hall and Swaine 1976), which are developed on soils of the ochrosol type (Brammer 1962). The zone forms the transition between the moist semideciduous forest in the north and the coastal savanna in the south (see fig. 5.1, p. 39). These forests have been subjected to extensive agricultural exploitation for more than 100 years. The land use pattern has changed from the dominance of a single tree cash crop, cocoa, to a mixed pattern with food crop dominance over the period. The resulting changes in land cover and the productive potential of the land are significant. The socio-economic and environmental implications are important for the sustained development of the zone. This paper examines the spatial patterns of land use and cover as a basis for the analysis of the socio-economic causes of the change in the environment and of the environmental consequences of the land use and cover change. It forms part of the multidisciplinary study of changes in the biophysical environment and agriculture in the southern sector of the forest-savanna transition zone.