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  1. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    Diciembre, 2016
    Ghana, África, África subsahariana, África occidental

    This participatory video titled “We Can” was filmed, produced, and directed by a group of 11 farmers and community members from Damolgo and Sekoti, Ghana. With this video they want to communicate the message: ‘we can use our combined knowledge to address the land management challenges we face.’ The film features farmers describing the importance of trees, stone bunds, contour planting and vetiver grass strips, mulching and manuring and the negative effects of bush burning.

  2. Library Resource
    Manual y guías
    Diciembre, 2016
    África, África oriental, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana

    This guide presents a step-by-step approach in using a participatory mapping method with community members to identify and map ecosystem services and changes in their supply across multiuse agricultural landscapes. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies and researchers can use this approach to learn from communities about how they use and access natural resources.

  3. Library Resource
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2016
    África occidental, África subsahariana, África, Ghana

    The Ghana Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey (GARBES) survey was implemented from May to July 2014 as part of IFPRI’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Africa RISING. Africa RISING aims to create opportunities for smallholder farmers in Africa south of the Sahara (through action research and development partnerships) by sustainably intensifying their farming systems and improving food, nutrition, and income security.

  4. Library Resource
    Access to farmland gets quick and dirty in sub-Saharan Africa cover image
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Enero, 2017
    África subsahariana, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, Senegal

    Who can access and use the land? The answer to this age-old question is changing fast in many parts of rural Africa. Land that used to be allocated within the community by chiefs is now increasingly changing hands in more diverse ways. The wealthy and well-connected within the community or from further afield are frequently able to override local statutory or customary land rights, dispossessing the previous occupants or forcing them to divide their already small plots of land.

  5. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Enero, 2017
    Ghana

    In the Global South, there is a push to drive agricultural modernisation processes through private sector investments. In West African drylands, land concessions are required for such agri-businesses are often negotiated through customary authorities, and inject large amounts of money into localised rural systems with low cash bases. The article argues that such transactions serve to increase area under crop cultivation on an inter-seasonal basis, as financial spill-overs allow for farmers to purchase larger quantities of agricultural inputs and prepare larger tracts of land.

  6. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Publicación revisada por pares
    Enero, 2017
    Ghana

    In the Global South, there is a push to drive agricultural modernisation processes through private sector investments. In West African drylands, land concessions are required for such agri-businesses are often negotiated through customary authorities, and inject large amounts of money into localised rural systems with low cash bases. The article argues that such transactions serve to increase area under crop cultivation on an inter-seasonal basis, as financial spill-overs allow for farmers to purchase larger quantities of agricultural inputs and prepare larger tracts of land.

  7. Library Resource

    Report about land-related corruption affecting women in Africa

    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Marzo, 2016
    África, Ghana, Zimbabwe
    This paper, presented at the 2016 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, explores the intersection between land corruption and women's access and ownership of land. Through analyzing a series of case studies, the paper notes that land access and ownership is increasingly defined by


    variables such as power, patronage and politics.

  8. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Diciembre, 2016
    Francia, Estados Unidos de América, Luxemburgo, Chile, Australia, Dinamarca, Países Bajos, Polonia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Argentina, Nueva Zelandia, Canadá, Brasil, Austria

    La tercera edición de la WRB incorpora, en el nuevo capítulo 2, elementos que permiten generar nombres taxonómicos mucho más informativos que llevan a deducir con facilidad la génesis y funciones de los suelos. Por otro lado, esta nueva versión de la WRB facilita la elaboración de leyendas de mapas a varias escalas para uso multifinalitario.

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