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numbers are threatened as natural resources are depleted and people are suffering from
their poor economic situation. Currently, farmers do not actively plant P. biglobosa
trees, therefore regeneration must be carried out by natural means. Livestock, fire, and
humans are all factors that limit the success of natural regeneration.
The Upper East Region supports a large percentage, as much as 30% of Ghana’s
livestock: cattle, sheep, and goats. Livestock are maintained is this region since tsetse
flies are absent. A main constraint to cattle production in south central Ghana is the
prevalance of trypanosomosis disease transmitted by the tsetse fly (Hendrickx et al
1999). Consequently, more and more farmers in the Upper East region are relying on
raising livestock as a means of increasing their wealth (Figure 24). For example, one of
Figure 24 – Sheep and cattle herded by village boys
the CCFI nursery workers resigned from our nursery to exclusively trade livestock from
northern Ghana to Kumasi and Accra in the south. Livestock have a great impact on
limited local resources. During the farming season, especially at the beginning in June
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