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Food security situation in Northern Ghana: coping strategies and related constraints
African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2008This paper looks at the food security situation in three regions of Northern Ghana and examines how farmer households cope during food insecure periods.DocumentAssessing the security implications of climate change for West Africa: country case studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue, climate change is now also being cast as a threat to international peace and security.DocumentRural income generating activities: whatever happened to the institutional vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007An increasing number of empirical papers and reports have provided evidence that point to the importance of the rural non-farm (RNF) economy in developing countries. In parallel, the livelihoods approach, recognises that households use a range of agricultural and non-agricultural activities as paths out of poverty.DocumentThe decline in public spending to agriculture: does it matter?
Oxford Policy Management, 2007Public spending on agriculture is now recognised to be an important means of promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty in rural areas. However, this paper reveals that agricultural spending is not being prioritised within current budgets and, in many cases, is actually falling.DocumentKnowledge management working tool for agricultural extension practice: the case of Ghana
Community of Practice, Knowledge Management for International Development, KM4DEV, 2006This paper proposes a circular knowledge management model for agricultural extension practice. The model incorporates tacit and explicit knowledge to inform the nature of extension services. It is based on empirical assessment of agricultural extension in Ghana.The author recommends agricultural extension experts adopt the circular knowledge management model.DocumentConnecting poverty and the environment in PRSPs
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers increasingly link poverty with the environment. However, many of these avoid tackling difficult or political aspects of environment management. How can Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers improve people’s livelihoods and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources?DocumentLinking farmers to markets
Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2006This website/page presents a selection of brief case studies of ways in which small-scale farmers in developing countries have linked with markets, through their own efforts and with assistance from others.DocumentThe impact of globalisation and liberalisation on agriculture and small farmers in developing countries: the experience of Ghana
Third World Network, 2006This study is part of a research project on the impact of globalisation and liberalisation on poor rural producers in developing countries. It takes as a case study the experience of Ghana and its agricultural sector.DocumentCan land registration serve poor and marginalised groups? summary report
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005This report summarise the research findings of a project to examine the current processes of land rights registration in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique and assess their outcomes for poor and vulnerable groups.DocumentLand Registration in Eastern and Western Regions, Ghana
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005Assesses the process of rural land registration in Ghana and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups.In Ghana, deeds registration has been in place since colonial times, and enables right holders to record their land transactions. However, very little rural land has actually been affected by this registration process.Pages