However, random inspections including locating and visually quantifying crop losses at some recently
damaged farms generally agreed with what farmers had reported
(pers. obs.). The village of Asofoadjei at the southeastern side of
BCA reported that they often faced periods of hunger after elephants had visited their fields. The remoteness of BCA and the
widespread cultivation of cocoa instead of food crops required food
provision from other parts of Ghana, boosting local market prices
and making it more difficult for people to meet their nutritional
requirements once their own food sources had been depleted by
wildlife. Babweteera et al. (2007)