ABSTRACT
By 2013, the African country of Ghana was well on its way to achieving an up-to-date agricultural system, thanks to the “New Green Revolution.” With encouragement from the government, Ghanaians have adopted many Western approaches to agriculture. Agroecology, the application of ecological science to the study, design, and management of sustainable agriculture, offers a model of agricultural development to meet this challenge. US Agency for International Development and others intent on eradicating poverty in the world followed in the footsteps of the Green Revolution, introducing crops that are genetically engineered to resist the viruses and other pathogens responsible for reducing crop yields in countries with emerging economies. One of their first initiatives was to revive traditional practices of agroforestry. Through the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration initiative, indigenous forests are regenerated from the stumps left in land that has been clear cut, a process that also encourages the spread of native shrubs which provide useful forms of brush.
