Mobility and Access for Off-Road Rural Farmers in West-Akim District

Abstract

The study is on the rural transportation problem in Ghana and its
consequences on the rural people, especially those who live in off road
villages (villages that do not have access to regular transportation systems).
The study specifically discusses the failure of the existing road transport
network to provide sufficient services to rural people in the count1y and its
socio-economic consequences on the people living in such areas. It starts
with the importance of transportation and the relationship between transport
and development in general. It then continues with the main problem of the
study which is the poor state of rural transport in Ghana, stating clearly the
failure of road transport to provide adequate transport services for the rural
people. The primary information was gathered in the field using different
qualitative methods and questionnaire. In addition, second01y sources were
used to support the primmy data collected in the field. Two villages from
West-Akim District were used for the study: Owuarkesim, representing an
off road village and Odjarde, representing a village which is fortunate to
have a good road passing through it.