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1 Abdul-Ghaniyu, S.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Yakubu, I. B.; Keraita, B. 2002. Source and quality of water for urban vegetable production, Tamale, Ghana. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 8:10.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: IWMI 631.7.2 G200 ABU Record No: H031906)
http://www.ruaf.org/sites/default/files/Sources%20and%20Quality%20-%20%20Tamale,%20Ghana.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_31906.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H_31906.pdf
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2 Asare, I.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Cofie, Olufunke. 2003. Faecal sludge application for agriculture in Tamale, Ghana. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 10: 32-33.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6499 Record No: H032876)
http://www.ruaf.org/sites/default/files/Faecal%20Sludge%20Application.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H032876.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H032876.pdf
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3 Beintema, N.; Bossio, Deborah A.; Dreyfus, F.; Fernandez, M.; Gurib-Fakim, A.; Hurni, H.; Izac, A. M.; Jiggins, J.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Leakey, R.; Ochola, W.; Osman-Elasha, B.; Plencovich, C.; Roling, N.; Rosegrant, M.; Rosenthal, E.; Smith, L. 2009. International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD): Agriculture at a Crossroads, global summary for decision makers. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press. 36p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H042936)
http://www.agassessment.org/reports/IAASTD/EN/Agriculture%20at%20a%20Crossroads_Global%20Summary%20for%20Decision%20Makers%20(English).pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042936.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H042936.pdf
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4 Namara, Regassa E.; Horowitz, L.; Kolavalli, S.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Dawuni, B. N.; Barry, Boubacar; Giordano, Mark. 2010. Typology of irrigation systems in Ghana. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 27p. (IWMI Working Paper 142) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2011.200]
Typology ; Surface irrigation ; Communal irrigation systems ; Farmers ; Water user associations ; Smallholders ; Irrigation management ; Public sector ; Private sector ; Wastewater irrigation ; Groundwater irrigation ; Tube well irrigation ; Wells ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Case studies / Ghana
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H043957)
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Interest in African irrigation investment is growing. However, irrigation is not a monolithic concept, and the opportunities and risks can vary substantially by approach. To help provide an understanding of the variation, this paper builds on previous work to provide a detailed typology of irrigation systems as currently used in Ghana.
5 Abaidoo, R. C.; Keraita, Bernard; Amoah, Philip; Drechsel, Pay; Bakang, J.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G; Konradsen, F.; Agyekum, W.; Klutse, A. 2009. Safeguarding public health concerns, livelihoods and productivity in wastewater irrigated urban and periurban vegetable farming. Colombo, Sri Lanka: CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF). 80p. (CPWF Project Report 38)
Vegetable growing ; Urban areas ; Wastewater irrigation ; Productivity ; Models ; Public health ; Research projects / Ghana / Accra / Kumasi / Tamale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044042)
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/WaterfoodCP/PN38_KNUST_ProjectReport_Nov09_approved.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044042.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044042.pdf
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The goal of the project was to develop integrated and user-oriented strategies to safeguard public health concerns without compromising livelihoods and land and water productivity in wastewater irrigated urban and peri-urban vegetable farming. In this project, assessment of land and water productivity in wastewater irrigated farming was done, levels of contamination on irrigation water and vegetables quantified at different levels along the food chain (farms, markets and consumer level) and appropriate lowcost risk reduction strategies identified and participatory testing done with stakeholders at farm and consumer levels. A large number of students were involved in the project, significantly building human capacity.
6 Danso, G.; Drechsel, Pay; Obuobie, E.; Forkuor, G.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.. 2014. Urban vegetable farming sites, crops and cropping practices. In Drechsel, Pay; Keraita, B. (Eds.) Irrigated urban vegetable production in Ghana: characteristics, benefits and risk mitigation. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.7-27.
Vegetables ; Crops ; Irrigated farming ; Urban agriculture ; Farmland ; Farmers ; Maize / Ghana / Kumasi / Accra / Tamale / Cape Coast / Sekondi Takorad / Techiman
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046599)
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The chapter describes the major sites of open-space vegetable farming in Ghana’s main cities. It also presents the principal cropping systems and characteristics of urban farmers involved in irrigated vegetable production.
7 Gyasi, E. A.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Fosu, M.; Mensah, A. M.; Yiran, G.; Fuseini, I. 2014. Managing threats and opportunities of urbanisation for urban and peri-urban agriculture in Tamale, Ghana. In Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.). The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.87-97. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)
Urbanization ; Urban agriculture ; Suburban agriculture ; Farmers ; Farmland ; Land use ; Water shortage ; Population growth ; Living standards ; Food security ; Economic aspects / Ghana / Tamale
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047022)
Urbanisation involves growth and transformation of settlements into increasingly large spatially sprawling cities. By encroaching upon agricultural land, taxing water resources and enticing rural people away from farming, urbanisation poses a threat to agriculture within both the built-up and peri-urban areas. Growing climate variability, an apparent sign of climate change, exacerbates the threat. At the same time, through an increased demand for food, the potential for affordable organic manure from urban waste and a need for efficient intensive land use urbanisation may encourage agricultural production and, thereby, enhance urban food security. Preliminary findings of an on-going inter-institutional, interdisciplinary assessment focused on Tamale, a rapidly growing city in Ghana, show that farmers seek to manage the agricultural threats and opportunities by various ingenuous survival strategies, notably livelihoods diversification, new cultivars, and land use intensification. This paper highlights the strategies and argues that if they are nurtured and integrated into policy they would positively inform sustainable urban development planning.
8 Buerkert, A.; Marschner, B.; Steiner, C.; Schlecht, E.; Wichern, M.; Schareika, N.; Lowenstein, W.; Drescher, A. W.; Glaser, R.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Gnankambary, Z.; Drechsel, Pay; Jean-Pascal Lompo, D. 2015. UrbanFoodplus – African-German Partnership to enhance resource use efficiency in urban and peri-urban agriculture for improved food security inWest African cities [Abstract only] In Tielkes, E. (Ed.). Management of land use systems for enhanced food security: conflicts, controversies and resolutions. Book of abstracts. International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development, Tropentag 2015, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 September 2015. Witzenhausen, Germany: German Institute for Agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics. pp.350-351.
Urban agriculture ; Periurban agriculture ; Irrigation ; Food security ; Nutrients ; International cooperation ; Partnerships ; Resource evaluation ; Farmers ; Soil fertility ; Organic fertilizers ; Inorganic fertilizers / West Africa / Burkina Faso / Ghana / Mali / Cameroon / Ouagadougou / Tamale / Bamako / Bamenda
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047212)
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Food security in West Africa not only depends on productivity increases in marginal rural areas, but also on enhanced use of intensively farmed agricultural “niche” lands such as the urban and peri-urban spaces. They are characterised by easy market access and input availability which allows self-reinforcing processes of agricultural intensification. However, too little is known about resource use efficiencies, matter flows and negative externalities in these systems. Starting from general assessments (status quo analyses), the African-German UrbanFoodPlus (UFP) network develops and tests site-specific, farmer-tailored innovations. These directly address the above mentioned knowledge gaps in the fourWest African cities of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tamale (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), and Bamenda (Cameroon). At all locations farmers attempt to cope with increasing land pressure by cultivating along electrical power lines, on public property, and on undeveloped private land.
9 Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N.; Afriyie, R.; Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G.; Bessah, E.; Ludwig, F. 2024. Changing terrain: evidence of climate change impacts and adaptive responses of Dagbani Indigenous Communities, northern Ghana. In Reyes-García, V. (Ed.). Routledge handbook of climate change impacts on indigenous peoples and local communities. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. pp.244-258. (Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks) [doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356837-19]
Climate change impacts ; Indigenous peoples ; Climate change adaptation ; Strategies ; Communities ; Households ; Temperatures ; Rainfall / Ghana / Kumbungu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052570)
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003356837-19/changing-terrain-emmanuel-attoh-ruddy-afriyie-gordana-kranjac-berisavljevic-enoch-bessah-fulco-ludwig
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052570.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052570.pdf
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This chapter presents observations of changes attributed to climate change and adaptation actions taken by Indigenous communities in Kumbungu – Northern Ghana. Using focus group discussions and simple random and convenience quota sampling techniques, 125 households and 175 individuals were interviewed. Results showed an increase in rainfall variability, frequency of heavy rainfall events, hot/warm days and average temperature; shortened growing season; increased frequency of crop pests and wildfire, and livestock mortality, all of which significantly affect households. To respond to climate impacts, respondents applied chemical fertilizers, changed crop varieties, planted trees, used sandbags against floods, used weather and seasonal forecast information, and engaged in off-farm activities. A key barrier to adaptation is the lack of financial resources. We recommend: (1) micro-credit schemes to support Indigenous people’s adaptation choices; (2) the provision of accurate weather and seasonal climate forecast information for actionable farming decision-making; and (3) the inclusion of Indigenous People’s in adaptation policy formulation, which might offer context, restore trust, and increase the useability of measures.
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