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Author : F. K. Odoom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Chainsawing in the Natural Forests of Ghana written by F. K. Odoom and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Sarfo-Mensah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Exportation of Timber in Ghana written by Paul Sarfo-Mensah and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an empirical analysis of the linkage between external timber trade in Ghana and the increased incidence of illegal chainsaw operations which do not only threaten the country's forests and other natural resources but also the erosion of the basis for sustainable agriculture which is the main-stay of the country's economy. It uses ethnographic data from case studies of a recent research in selected forest reserves fringe communities in High Forest Zone of the country to explain the frustrations of local people with government policies that favour export to the neglect of local demand for timber and wood products. Although government pronouncements suggest that it is gaining an upper hand in the battle against illegal logging operations, evidence on the ground suggests that the greater part of the lumber on the local markets is supplied through illegal means predominated by itinerant chainsaw operators and their urban financiers. The paper concludes that the country's forest and tree resources face massive degradation and overexploitation if the government does not take a bold decision on illegal logging, especially the activities of chainsaw operators. An option, though unpalatable and politically sensitive, may be the mainstreaming of chainsaw operations through the re-introduction of limited permits to registered local groups of timber traders and their chainsaw operators to supply the domestic market. This should be under a system which enjoins such groups to be collectively responsible for the activities of their members. And, the government should also strengthen the Forestry Services Division (FSD) to design and operationalize an enhanced monitoring and surveillance system of logging activities.
Author : Laura Anne German
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136545514
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World written by Laura Anne German and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes - most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms - and explores the viability of different governance instruments in the context of weak governance and expanding commercial pressures over forests. Findings are grouped into two thematic areas: decentralization, livelihoods and sustainable forest management; and international trade, finance and forest sector governance reforms. The authors examine diverse forces shaping the forest sector, including the theory and practice of decentralization, usurpation of authority, corruption and illegality, inequitable patterns of benefits capture and expansion of international trade in timber and carbon credits, and discuss related outcomes on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. The book builds on earlier volumes exploring different dimensions of decentralization and perspectives from other world regions, and distills dimensions of forest governance that are both unique to Africa and representative of broader global patterns. The authors ground their analysis in relevant theory while drawing out implications of their findings for policy and practice.
Author : J. Henry Owusu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174029
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs, and Trade written by J. Henry Owusu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade by various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liberal era. In relation to this, Owusu documents the structural and organizational changes that have occurred in the region resulting from national and international development policies, such as modernization and neo-liberal structural adjustment on industrialization and development, and assesses the roles played by powerful international organizations such as The World Bank as agents of economic change. The discussion is couched in the critical but often unrecognized or neglected role the discipline of geography and its associated perspectives play in relation to examining and understanding the unequal relationship between the advanced and developing economies, and how that relationship affects development and trade behavior of developing economies. The core argument made regarding this relationship is tied to the structuralist perspective that Africa’s persistent underdevelopment problem is rooted in the very structure of its political economy. Based on the discussion, Owusu identifies and distills lessons from Ghana’s experience for Development policy and practice in Africa and comparable Developing countries in the 21st Century.
Author : Emmanuel Ametepeh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658250399
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Forest Transition Deficiency Syndrome written by Emmanuel Ametepeh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous studies focus on lack of enforcement of forest laws, poverty, and ecological values of forest dependent people, coherent studies on people’s motivations for forest illegalities and non-compliance behavior remain scanty. Emmanuel Ametepeh argues that the systematic analysis of cause-and-effect patterns related to forest management measures and policies through the lenses of the Forest Transition Theory uncovers severe limitations. The resulting multi-complex stress factors adversely impact and hence manifest in the form of deviant compliance behavior (“syndrome”) in the management endeavor of forest-fringe people. The Author shows that motivations for forest illegalities and associated non-compliance behavior is largely an outcome of adverse experiences forest people have been subjected to as a result of historical and contemporary neglects and marginalization in the management endeavor.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843691035
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Local Institutions and Adaptive Forest Management in Ghana written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1996 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.D. Herrmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Inventory of Natural Regeneration and the Recovery of Logging Gaps in the Nkrabia Forest Reserve in Ghana written by T.D. Herrmann and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Photoguide for the Forest Trees of Ghana written by William Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Osei-Tutu
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843694549
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Hidden Forestry Revealed written by Paul Osei-Tutu and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stanturf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400753381
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration written by John Stanturf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While restoration ecology has traditionally aimed to re-create some putative more ‘natural’ ecological state, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged over the last decade as an approach aimed more at restoring natural functions, while focusing on meeting human needs. With a view to exploring the practical potential of this approach, this book draws together a team of experts from the natural and social sciences to discuss its success so far in addressing critical issues such as biodiversity, ecological function, and human livelihoods. Applying principles of landscape ecology, restoration ecology, planning theory and conflict management, the book presents a series of case studies which document the approach, and discusses how the approach can help with priority setting for the future. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.
Author : Atampugre, Gerald
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Situational analysis of a social-ecological landscape in the Ahafo Ano Southwest District of Ghana written by Atampugre, Gerald and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social-Ecological Landscape (SEL) comprises a set of important resources (e.g., natural, socioeconomic, and cultural) whose flow and use are controlled by a mix of ecological and social subsystem dynamics. In developing countries, drivers of SEL changes are complex, and SEL pressures are growing. Areas endowed with natural resources (e.g., fertile soils, forests, water, minerals, etc.) tend to have high population growth rates and high poverty incidence. These tend to culminate in high demand for livelihood capitals (e.g., access to livelihood alternatives, education, food, health, water, forest resources, dwellings, roads, agriculture/aquaculture spaces, etc.). Further, multiple national and global stakeholders have continuedly to place a high demand on exploiting natural resources at the subnational.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251305471
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Making forest concessions in the tropics work to achieve the 2030 Agenda written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The specific objective of these Voluntary Guidelines is to promote the sustainable management of public production natural forests in tropical countries through forest concessions, thereby fulfilling their potential contribution to the achievement of Agenda 2030. Forest concession regimes are treated here as forest policy instruments, and should be aligned with the sustainable forest management objectives agreed by countries in the UNFF. The current Guidelines intend to serve as guidance for making forest concessions an effective economic instrument of forest policy in the context of the 2030 Agenda, transforming them into an instrument capable of delivering sustainable forest management in all its dimensions, and generating socio-economic benefits to relevant stakeholders.
Author : William Hawthorne
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9782831702612
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Forest Protection in Ghana written by William Hawthorne and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1995 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest management in Ghana is in a transition period. This report looks at the historical background and forest condition today, summarizes a recent botanical survey, and offers recommendations for a new management regime given the seriously threatened state of many forest reserves.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Ghana Journal of Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 147552286X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghana has pursued several programs to accelerate the growth of the economy. In 1995, the government presented “Ghana: Vision 2020,” aimed at making Ghana a middle-income country in 25 years. Vision 2020 focused on human development, economic growth, rural development, urban development, infrastructure development, and an enabling environment. It was followed by the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy. One of the main challenges to economic growth is the unemployment problem. The recent discoveries of oil and gas create tremendous opportunities for stimulating national development.
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807003255
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Land Grabbers written by Fred Pearce and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. The Land Grabbers is a first-of-its-kind exposé that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce’s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. Pearce’s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly “empty” land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts. Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet’s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.
Author : National Development Planning Commission (Ghana)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Implementation of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (GSGDA), 2010-2013 written by National Development Planning Commission (Ghana) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
