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Hacia la construcción de paisajes a prueba de incendios
El humo se disipa… Un pequeño grupo regresa a sus casas para almorzar. Unas pocas hectáreas arden sin peligro. Esta zona no volverá a arder en algún tiempo. Junto con otras parcelas quemadas en distintos momentos, toda la zona está a salvo de la amenaza de un incendio forestal. Los...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Côte d'Ivoire - Ecuador - Ethiopia - Ghana - Indonesia - Madagascar - Mexico - Nepal - Thailand - Uganda - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) - Viet Nam
2022 - Tropenbos International
Libro
Los jóvenes y la agricultura
Desafíos clave y soluciones concretas
Esta publicación proporciona ejemplos de la vida real sobre cómo involucrar nuevamente a los jóvenes en la agricultura. El documento muestra cómo programas educativos personalizados pueden proveer a los jóvenes rurales las habilidades y el conocimiento necesarios para involucrarse en la agricultura y adoptar métodos de producción amigables con el...
Bahamas - Bangladesh - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Canada - China - Colombia - Ethiopia - France - Ghana - Grenada - Kenya - Madagascar - Mexico - Pakistan - Philippines - Republic of Moldova - Rwanda - Togo - Uganda - United States of America - Zambia
2014
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How to bridge the missing middle working with climate-smart SMEs, intermediaries, financers and policy makers?
The objective of this impact report is to gain consolidated impact insights and lessons learned from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) financed SEED project: Financing and capacity building for micro and small climate-smart enterprises: Filling the gap of the missing middle.
The 5-year global SEED project was operating in Ghana, India,...
Ghana - India - Indonesia - South Africa - Thailand - Uganda
2024 - SEED
Artículo de blog
Knowledge sharing to improve the sustainability of food systems in West Africa: Lessons learned from the Food Systems Caravan
Knowledge sharing and co-creation for application offer pathways for the multidimensional challenges of food systems in West Africa which are to date still largely underexplored. They have the potential for the emergence of effective communities of practice to tackle some of the serious threats West African food systems face today,...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Ghana - Mali - Nigeria
2024
Artículo
Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are...
Ghana
2024 - University of South Africa
Artículo de revista especializada
Consistency in climate change impact reports among indigenous peoples and local communities depends on site contexts
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are heavily affected by climatic changes. Investigating local understandings of climate change impacts, and their patterned distribution, is essential to effectively support monitoring and adaptation strategies. In this study, we aimed to understand the consistency in climate change impact reports and factors influencing consistency at...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Fiji - Ghana - Kenya - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania
2024 - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
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Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital
Agrobiodiversity is the subset of biodiversity found within agricultural ecosystems. It feeds us with nutrients vital to our health. It fuels and furnishes our homes. It underpins cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.
Just three crops account for half...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Artículo de blog
All-women cooperative transforming cocoa waste into energy in Ghana
In a groundbreaking move, as part of MoMo4C, Tropenbos Ghana has launched a Waste-to-Energy pilot project in the Sefwi Wiawso Juaboso Bia (SWJB) landscape with an all-women cocoa cooperative. By turning cocoa waste into a valuable resource, this model aims to create new avenues for income generation, livelihood diversification, and...
Ghana
2024 - Tropenbos International
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ICSF's Brochure on Social Development and Fishing Communities
This brochure contains the challenges and recommendations from the eight countrie’s case studies on ‘Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries’ conducted by ICSF in Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ghana, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand and India (Kerala/Tamil Nadu and West Bengal).
The ICSF’s studies uses the parameters of social development, within...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Costa Rica - Ghana - India - Philippines - Thailand
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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SAMUDRA Report No.91, June 2024
The Triannual Journal of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelehoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 91, dated June 2024, is a Special Issue that runs into 110 pages and features a diverse range of...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - France - Ghana - India - Japan - Nicaragua - Senegal - Sri Lanka - Uganda - United States of America - Viet Nam
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Yemaya Newsletter No.69, June 2024: ICSF´s newsletter on gender and fisheries
Yemaya No. 69, dated June 2024, features articles from Barbados, India, Spain, a regional study focusing on Kenya, Sri Lanka and Cambodia and Women in Fisheries Action plans from ICSF’s IYAFA workshops from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.
A series of regional workshops were held through...
Barbados - Ghana - India - Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Institutional and economic perspectives on distant-water fisheries access arrangements
This summary outlines the information contained in the “Institutional and Economic Perspectives on Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements” report (2024), which is an expansion of the first report the “Mapping Distant-Water Fisheries Access Arrangements”, published in 2022.This report conducts a more targeted examination of the economic dynamics, policy drivers, and institutional...
China - Ghana - Japan - Namibia
2024 - FAO
Libro
Fertile Ground
Scaling agroecology from the ground up
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking challenges...
Brazil - Burkina Faso - Ecuador - Ghana - Haiti - Honduras - Mali - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - United States of America
2023 - Groundswell International
Artículo
Informing the design of a multistakeholder platform in Ghana using stakeholder analysis and social network analysis
The fertiliser value chain in Ghana faces many challenges that limit its potential contribution to food production and food security in the country. This has necessitated discussions on the need to establish a multi-stakeholder platform to address existing value chain challenges. In preparation for this platform, this study conducted 31...
Ghana
2023
Estudio de caso
Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana : une filière cacao plus juste et durable avec le DRD ?
Ces dernières années, l’accès à un revenu décent pour les producteurs est devenu une priorité de la filière cacao, notamment en Côte d’Ivoire et au Ghana, les deux premiers exportateurs mondiaux. Les gouvernements de ces pays en ont pris conscience en adoptant, en octobre 2020, le Différentiel de revenu décent...
Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana
2023 - Fondation pour l'Agriculture et la Ruralité dans le Monde (FARM)
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Digitalization and child labour in agriculture
Exploring blockchain and Geographic Information Systems to monitor and prevent child labour in Ghana’s cocoa sector. Design paper
This paper is the product of a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to explore the potential application of innovative technologies to improve data collection and risk estimation of child labour in the cocoa sector. In particular, it...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Advancing agrobiodiversity through agroecology, seed management and enterprise development in Ghana
This agrobiodiversity case study (No.2) from Ghana is the second of six case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF).
It describes the actions of the Abrono Organic Farmers Association (ABOFA) – formerly the Abrono Organic Farming Project – based in Forikrom...
Ghana
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Artículo de revista especializada
Doing it right to alleviate poverty: application of the sustainable food value chain development framework to Ghana’s poultry sector
Some international organizations and civil society activists are blaming exporting countries of frozen chicken products for the underdevelopment of the domestic poultry sectors in developing nations. However, concrete evidence that supports or rejects these criticisms is missing. Against this background, this study was conducted to examine the performance of Ghana’s...
Ghana
2023 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Artículo de blog
Closed Season: The woes of women and children in fishing communities
The din of brisk fishing activity greets anyone who ventures onto the landing beach at Jamestown the Greater Accra Region and in coastal regions all over Ghana.
The fishermen haul nets with fish from the boats, while the women take up the sale of fish from January to December.
But not so...
Ghana
2023
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Ghana: Beyond Knee-jerk Reactions
Ghana’s efforts at providing social development, employment and decent work in its fisheries sector must focus on improving education, health and social protection in fishing communities
Ghana has about 550 km of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, along the Gulf of Guinea. Within the coastal space, more than two million people are directly and indirectly engaged in fisheries. The country’s engagement with the sea results in about 300,000 tonnes of fish every year, apart from nearly...
Ghana
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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