Ghana's cocoa frontier in trnsistion: the role of migration and livelihood diversification

The article draws on fieldwork data collected between 2005 and 2013 from the Juaboso District, located in the heart of Ghana’s current cocoa frontier in the Western Region, this article aims to examine how immigration and frontier dynamics in the region are contributing to livelihood transitions and small town development, and how this process is gradually becoming delinked from the production of cocoa.