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1 Christiaensen, L.; Demery, L.; Paternostro, S. 2003. Macro and micro perspectives of growth and poverty in Africa. The World Bank Economic Review, 17(3):317-347.
Economic growth ; Economic policy ; Poverty ; Households ; Living standards ; Income distribution / Africa / Ethiopia / Ghana / Madagascar / Mauritania / Nageria / Uganda / Zambia / Zimbabwe
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6829 Record No: H034540)
2 Klinkenberg, Eveline; McCall, P. J.; Hastings, Ian; Wilson, M. D.; Amerasinghe, Felix; Donnelly, M. J. 2005. Malaria and irrigated crops, Accra, Ghana. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11(8):1290-1293.
Malaria ; Waterborne diseases ; Irrigated farming ; Public health ; Agricultural society / Accra / Ghana
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 616.9362 G200 KLI Record No: H037245)
3 Cofie, Olufunke O.; Drechsel, Pay; Agbottah, S.; van Veenhuizen, R. 2008. Resource recovery from urban waste: options and challenges for community based composting in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Richards, B. S.; Schafer, A. I. (Eds). Proceedings of the International Conference on Water and Sanitation in International Development and Disaster Relief (WSIDDR), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 28-30 May, 2008. Edinburgh, UK: University of Edinburgh. pp.290-296.
Sanitation ; Public health ; Sewage sludge ; Solid wastes ; Composting ; Waste management / Africa / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana / Ghana / Kenya / Ethiopia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 631.875 G110 COF Record No: H041517)
Municipal authorities in developing countries are facing immense challenges in managing both solid and liquid waste in a sustainable way. Recycling is not yet high on their agenda although they appreciate the potential of composting for waste volume reduction. This offers an entry point to introduce organic waste recycling as a component of sustainable integrated sanitation which has the potential of a win-win situation by reducing waste flows, ensuring environmental health, supporting food production and creating livelihoods. However, due to several constraints recycling attempts have often a short life time. This paper tries to analyse related reasons by drawing from a larger feasibility study in Ghana and a survey of compost stations in different parts of Africa. It concludes with a framework for the analysis and the planning of recycling interventions in the context of sustainable sanitation, looking in particular at community based options for solid waste and human excreta.
4 Venot, Jean-Philippe. 2011. What Commons? rethinking participation in the Sub-Saharan African water sector. Paper presented at the 13th IASC Biennial International Conference on Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, Hyderabad, India, 10 -14 January 2011. 10p.
Water resources ; Water governance ; Reservoirs ; Water user associations ; Irrigation programs / Africa South of Sahara / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044426)
http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/papers/docs/407/submission/original/407.pdf
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Global reports and major funding agencies herald the comeback of agriculture on the international development agenda as a means of achieving the Millenium Development Goals. Within this renewed interest, irrigation is presented as pivotal to increasing food production and alleviating poverty. This is especially the case in sub-Saharan Africa, where macro indicators point to an underdeveloped and underperforming agriculturecum-irrigation sector. While large dam projects are still prevalent, small-scale irrigation has also become the focus of increased attention from researchers, national decisionmakers, and the international development community. Indeed, small-scale irrigation fits well within the development narrative of participation. This paper engages with such a view. It uses the example of small reservoirs in northern Ghana to highlight that small scale irrigation projects are, firstly, based on narrow visions of the ‘commons’ and participation that rarely consider the experiences and perceptions of local populations; secondly do not account for the de-facto institutional “bricolage” and the diverse land and water claims that they contribute to shape; thirdly, and in ontrast to the new vocabulary of development, continue to regard intended beneficiaries as ‘recipients’ rather than participants with agency; and, finally, largely ignore broader institutional issues that characterize the water sector in the country. Further investments and reforms are said to be the remedy. These are unlikely to succeed, so long as they adhere to a narrowly-defined notion of development. This paper calls for an approach that which acknowledges the multiple claims and uses of natural resources, and which recognizes that projects contribute to shaping new meanings of space and relationships to environments, whose fairness depends on the vantage point considered.
5 Jr. Tabe-Ojong, M. P.; Aihounton, G. B. D.; Lokossou, J. C. 2023. “Climate-smart agriculture and food security: cross-country evidence from West Africa” Global Environmental Change, 81:102697. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102697]
Climate-smart agriculture ; Food security ; Climate resilience ; Agricultural productivity ; Agricultural production ; Nutrition security ; Land productivity ; Households ; Yields ; Food consumption ; Organic fertilizers ; Policies / West Africa / Ghana / Mali / Nigeria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052070)
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In the face of climate change and extreme weather events which continue to have significant impacts on agricultural production, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as one important entry point in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases and building climate resilience while ensuring increases in agricultural productivity with ensuing implications on food and nutrition security. We examine the relationship between CSA, land productivity (yields), and food security using a survey of farm households in Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria. To understand the correlates of the adoption of these CSA practices as well as the association between CSA, yields, and food security, we use switching regressions that account for multiple endogenous treatments. We find a positive association between the adoption of CSA practices and yields. This increase in yields translate to food security as we observe a positive association between CSA and food consumption scores. Although we show modest associations between the independent use of CSA practices such as adopting climate-smart groundnut varieties, cereal-groundnut intercropping, and the use of organic fertilizers, we find that bundling these practices may lead to greater yield and food security gains. Under the different combinations, the use of climate-smart groundnut varieties exhibit the strongest association with yields and food security. We also estimate actual-counterfactual relationships where we show that the adoption of CSA practices is not only beneficial to CSA adopters but could potentially be beneficial to non-CSA adopters should they adopt. These results have implications for reaching some of the sustainable development targets, especially the twin goals of increasing agricultural productivity and maintaining environmental sustainability.
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