Tropical Agriculture and Culture in Ghana

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Ghana
Monday, May 12, 2025 to Sunday, May 25, 2025
Department: 
Agronomy
Type of Travel: 
Travel Course
Semester: 
Spring
Year: 
2025
Application Deadline: 
Friday, November 1, 2024
Program Director(s): 

This Travel Study course will take place in the Coastal Savannah, the Semi deciduous rainforest, and the High rain-forest Evergreen ecological zones of Ghana, where students will learn about tropical agriculture, agroforestry, animal production, animal ecology, and aspects of Ghanaian culture in foods, art, and music in the three ecological zones chosen for the travel study. Students will have the opportunity to interact with local farmers for community service.

Students in this Travel Study course will visit a National Park in the Western Region, the Akansa Game Reserve, and Nini-Suhien National Park in the high rain-forest evergreen ecological zone of Ghana, designated as an International Biosphere Reserve to serve as a nature museum for research. It is a great botanical beauty, which will be an excellent learning experience for students in Animal Ecology, and Forestry with its plant species and wildlife richness. There are 43 mammal species at the Akansa Game Reserve including Bongo, forest elephants, and 10 primate species including the endemic Diana Monkey, and the endangered West African Chimpanzee. The bird life in the Game Reserve includes parrots, hornbills, and the rare white fronted guinea fowl. Other interesting features in the Ankasa Game Reserve include hiking trails, trees, and twines of remarkable formation, river cascades, “Bamboo Cathedral” and Lodges. The Game Reserve has unique vegetation and the humid air of the jungle. This unique area can be an excellent learning experience for students in Agroforestry Biology, and Animal Ecology majors.