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Ghana. The intensity of the practice in Guinea is limited to the relatively less
populated areas of the province around Kouroussa-Moussaya.
If collaborative management efforts, particularly workable policy measures that
cut across regional frontiers of West Africa, are not radically promoted, then the
resource potential and the ecology of the transition zone stands a great chance of
being threatened. The rapid population increases linked to the high demands for
vegetation resources and land use in the subregion calls for prompt action.
For example, considerations of win-win scenarios in the different neighbouring
countries needs to be reviewed in the context of sustainable vegetation resource
utilization within the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS). Alternate
domestic energy sources need to be explored and improved. Cross-border research
towards effective and efficient management must be promoted. The good lessons
learnt must be replicated. By so doing, the problem of land degradation in the
savanna woodland of the subregion could be reversed.
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