Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural
Change in West Africa • Perspectives from Ghana •
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Environment, Biodiversity and Agricultural
Change in West Africa Table of contents (157 p.)
Edited by Edwin A. Gyasi and Juha I. Uitto
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Opening address
The
context
2: People, land management and environmental change: Conceptual background, with focus on Africa
Background and context
Population, agriculture and environment in sub-Saharan Africa
Objectives of PLEC
PLEC in Africa
International collaboration for sustainable development
References
Concept of sustainability
Indigenous sustainable farming systems
Conclusion
References
4: Criteria for designing sustainable farming systems in tropical Africa
Sustainable agriculture
Farming systems of tropical Africa and their sustainability under changing conditions
Ingredients of sustainable farming systems and issues to be considered in the design of these systems
Sectorial interface requirements
Conclusions and recommendations
References
Materials and method
Analyses
Results and discussion
Conclusion
References
Materials and methods
Results and other observations
Other observations
Discussion
Conclusion
References
11: Ability of the farming systems to cope and strategies for sustaining farming
The agroenvironmental changes and adaptations
Declining yields
Strategies for sustaining farming
Conclusion
References
12: Gender and non-governmental organizations in environmental management
Gender and non-governmental organizations
Environmental and agricultural changes
Measures for coping with the adverse changes
The relative roles of NGOs and GOs
Conclusion
Upper Manya Krobo
Research methodology
Land degradation and its consequences
Adaptation, regeneration and innovation
Implications for research
Acknowledgement
References
Introduction
Study area
Conceptual basis
Studies
Land use and cover sequences
Food cropping on abandoned land
Land use and cover sub-sequences
General indications and future trends
References
15: Women, environmental change and economic crisis in Ghana
Introduction
Background to the research: Economic crisis and structural adjustment
Environmental degradation in North-Eastern Ghana
Gender and agricultural systems in North-Eastern Ghana
The gender division of labour
Structural adjustment and its impact on health, nutrition and consumption patterns
Changes in educational status
Changes in income-generating activities
Changes in women's time use
Women's time use and seasonality
Conclusion
References
Research objectives
Methodology
Research extension
Other recommendations
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