Description
Drawing on findings of nearly ten years of United Nations University Project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (UNU/PLEC) multidisciplinary, participatory research work in West Africa (mainly Ghana), this book shows how, traditionally, farmers cultivate and conserve biodiversity while, at the same time, using the land for food production. It highlights PLEC interventions for sustaining agrodiversity for rural livelihoods, as it does lessons for teaching, policy and development planning.
The book would appeal to policy makers and practitioners, and to university students and teachers, including those of agriculture, social science, biological science and others relating to environmental or natural resources management and sustainable development.
Authors/Editors
Edwin A. Gyasi is a professor of geography and resource development, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. Gordana Kranjac- Berisavljevic is Head, Department of Agricultural Mechanization and Irrigation Technology, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. Essie T. Blay is an associate professor, Department of Crop Science, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra. William Oduro is Director, Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.
Contents
Preface
Part I: Methodological approaches and knowledge systems: Methodological approaches to the book
Philosophical foundations of biophysical resource use with special reference to Ghana
Traditional methods of resource assessment relative to the scientific
Farmer strategies of managing agrodiversity in a variable climate in PLEC demonstration sites in southern Ghana
Expert farmers and demonstration sites in conservation of biodiversity
Part II: Cropping Systems and Related Case Studies: Management regimes in southern Ghana
Yams: traditional ways of managing their diversity for food security in southern Ghana Sustaining diversity of yams in northern Ghana
Conservation of indigenous rice varieties by women of Gore in the northern savanna zone, Ghana
Vegetables: traditional ways of managing their diversity for food security in southern Ghana
The proka mulching and no-burn system: A case study of Tano-Odumasi and Jachie
Managing the home garden for food security and as a germplasm bank
Management of trees in association with crops in traditional agroforestry systems
Preliminary observations on effects of traditional farming practices on growth and yield of crops
Effects of four indigenous trees canopy covers on soil fertility in a Ghanaian savanna
Comparative management of savanna woodland in Ghana and Guinea: a preliminary analysis
Agrodiversity within and without conserved forests for enhancing rural livelihoods
Part III: Social dimensions of resource management: Aspects of resource tenure that conserve biodiversity: the case of southern and northern Ghana
Resource access and distribution and the use of land in Tano-Odumase, central Ghana
The women environmental pace setters of Jachie
Part IV: Conclusion: Lessons learnt and future research directions
Contributors
Edwin A. Gyasi
Alfred Oteng-Yeboah
Stephen Nkansa Buabeng
Edward Ofori-Sarpong
Felix Asante
Essie T. Blay
Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
B. Z. Gandaa
B. Tanzubil
C. Quansah
W. Oduro
Lewis Enu-Kwesi
Vincent Von Vordzogbe
J. A. Poku
L. Asafo
E. Laing
Charles Anane-Sakyi
A. Sadik Abdulai
J. Saa Dittoh
D. Amirou
D. Daouda
Ben D. Ofori
John Heloo
J. B. Ofori
Emmanuel Nartey
William J. Asante
J. A. Bakang
K. A. Nkyi
Olivia Agbenyega
William Oduro
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