Subject(s): agriculture / Genre: 35 mm slide / Location(s): banda / Format: image - Improving African Futures Using Lessons from the Past

Start Over Subject(s) agriculture Genre 35 mm slide Location(s) banda Format image

Description:: A group of men work together, gathered at farm, processing calabash (gourd; chrԑ in Nafaanra) for market sale. The calabash is split, its pulpy interior removed, and the gourd's interior surface scraped clean before drying. Shavings from this thinning process are scattered about on the ground. Several children are gathered nearby as the men work. A basket sits next to a pile of prepared calabash bowls (chrԑgbͻͻ in Nafaanra). Farm near Ahenkro, August, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Calabash; Men's work
Subjects Facet:: Lagenaria siceraria; Baskets; Agriculture; Gourd, Calabash; Cash crops
Identifier:: 22
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-08
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda
Date Digitized:: 2019-05-28
Commentary:: Slide scanned by Mark McIntyre

Description:: Ma Mnama had a reputation as a successful farmer in the Banda area. Here she uses a short-handled hoe (kagbaan in Nafaanra; pl. kagbɛɛn) to cultivate her intercropped field, located to the east of Banda-Ahenkro, 1982
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Weeding; Intercropping; Women's work
Subjects Facet:: Hoeing; Intercropping; Agriculture; Farming
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Contributors:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982
Genre:: 35 mm slide
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda
Date Digitized:: 2016

Description:: A cashew tree (Anacardium sp.) grows in an agricultural field planted (foreground) with calabash (Lagenaria siceraria). Sampson Attah stands near the tree. Calabash has long been grown as a cash crop for local and regional sale in the Banda area. When cashew trees were first planted in the area from the mid-1990s, they were grown singly or in small numbers. A growing shift to cashew farming in the area during the early 2000s was accompanied by the planting of large stands of cashew trees referred to locally as "plantations." Banda area, June, 1995.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1995-06
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Cashew; Anacardium; Agricultural field
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Farming;Gourd, calabash; Lagenaria siceraria; Cash crop
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1995
Date searchable:: 1995-06
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda, Bono, Ghana
Date Digitized:: 2020
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Description:: The soil of a agricultural mound has been dug away to expose a yam (Dioscorea sp.) tuber. The yam vine spreads across the mound and beyond at the top of the photo, its roots surrounding the tuber. A yellow pencil is placed to the left of the yam to provide scale. Banda area, June, 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1982-08
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Agricultural field; Dioscorea sp.
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Farming; Yams
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-08
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda, Bono, Ghana
Date Digitized:: 2020
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Description:: Yam mounds have been raised in a partially cleared agricultural field. Small trees have been left to supply support for climbing vines and to aid fallowing after the field has been used for several years. The hard work of forming the mounds using short-handled hoes takes place early in the dry season, after which mounds are planted with yam cuttings during the months of January-February. The vines grow throughout the rainy months of April to August, forming new tubers which are ready for harvesting in late August-September. Banda area, Dec. 1982.
Rights:: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
Publisher:: University of Victoria Libraries
Date:: 1982-12
Location(s) Facet:: Banda
Subjects:: Dry season; Agricultural field; Dioscorea esculenta
Subjects Facet:: Agriculture; Farming; Yams
Creator:: Dr. Ann B. Stahl
Date searchable:: 1982
Date searchable:: 1982-12
Genre Facet:: 35 mm slide
Format:: Image
Location(s):: Banda, Bono, Ghana
Date Digitized:: 2020
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