Kees van der Geest

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PhD Research

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Summary of Research Plan, download (31 kb)
Disciplinary specification of the research, download (28 kb)
Presentation of research plans. University of Sussex, 5 December 2002, download (235 kb)
Summary of problem statement of the NWO project, download (22 kb)

Migration and livelihood analysis of rural households in the Upper West Region (n=204), download (130 kb)
Instructions for enumerators of the questionnaire for the Upper West Region download (495 kb)
Dagara settlers in the Brong Ahafo Region (n=203 + 50), download (90 kb)
Indigenous land owners in the Brong Ahafo Region (N=73), download (60 kb)
Dagara seasonal labour migrants in the Brong Ahafo Region (n=71), download (58 kb)
Community level questionnaire in the Brong Ahafo Region (n=10), download (15 kb)

More people, less food? A cross-district analysis of population density and agricultural production in Northern Ghana. Paper presented at the CERES Summer School, 25-27 June 2007, download presentation(16 MB)
Local perceptions of migration and livelihood in Northwest Ghana: The home community's perspective. Paper presented at the CERES Summer school, The Hague, 27-30 June 2005, download (453 kb)
Rural migration and livelihood security in Ghana: Paper presented at the International Workshop on Migration and Poverty in West Africa, University of Sussex, 13-14 March 2003, download (253 kb)
Essay: Internal Migration and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in West Africa (November 2002), download (118 kb)