An exploration of policy knowledge-seeking on high-volume, low-carbon transport: findings from expert interviews in selected African and South-Asian countries

Jennings, Gail

doi:10.1016/j.trip.2020.100117

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“…The study made use of KIIs because COVID-19 appeared novel, hence the need to engage with actors who had considerable knowledge and opinion on the subject matter. We purposively selected officers who worked as Monitoring and Evaluation, Agricultural Extension Agents, The use of KIIs in such instances has been given credence by ( Jennings, 2020 ; Yazdani et al, 2018 ). A key informant interview guide was developed eliciting questions on rice value chain actors’ views on the disruptions caused by COVID-19 to the sector.…”

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Ghana's rice value chain resilience in the context of COVID-19

Ankrah

Agyei-Holmes

Boakye

2021

Social Sciences & Humanities Open

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The 2020 State of the Food Security and Nutrition World report suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may render 83 to 132 million people food insecure. The global south has been projected to be adversely affected by COVID-19 in terms of food and nutritional security. This potentially renders Africa off track in achieving SDG -2 of zero hunger by 2030. Ghana is a net importer of rice and how the sector responded to the global pandemic has received less traction in the agri-food system literature. There is skewed literature that concentrates on the global north. The paper employed a qualitative approach involving key informant interviews across 6 regions in Ghana. The study covered 48 Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAs) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) officers, 80 farmers, and 48 market leaders. We use one of the country's main food staple - rice to show the food (in)-security situation during the pandemic. We articulate that the use of the right food security conceptual and theoretical framing remains imperative in understanding food (in)-security. The findings showed price hikes during the imposition of lockdown affected access (physical and effective demand). Rice however remained available during and after the lockdown imposition. Ghana's rice production output was affected during the COVID-19. The ramification of COVID-19 on Ghana's rice sector was not dire but points to the vulnerability of the rice value chain to future pandemics. Important policy actions are needed to consolidate particular gains made in Ghana's planting for food and jobs to minimize rice imports.

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Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ghana's rice value chain resilience in the context of COVID-19

Ankrah

Agyei-Holmes

Boakye

2021

Social Sciences & Humanities Open

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“…Although the sample size may be considered small, for such a survey that focuses only on European-based public authorities, it is considered satisfactory and it is also in line with previous efforts to explore practices of public authorities even before the Covid-19 outbreak ( Jennings, 2020 ; Johansson et al, 2019 ). It should be also noted that when the survey took place almost all European countries were in a lockdown, no vaccines were available and several employees in authorities were on furlough; while the priority of those who were working was to secure public health having limited time to participate in surveys.…”

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confidence: 83%

Changing transport planning objectives during the Covid-19 lockdowns: Actions taken and lessons learned for enhancing sustainable urban mobility planning

Kamargianni

Georgouli

Tronca

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“…The current academic research on policy evaluation is generally classified into two categories: qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research mainly includes text mining method (Kang et al, 2021), qualitative comparative analysis (Warren et al, 2013), and expert survey method (Jennings, 2020), etc. ; and quantitative research mainly involves the introduction of mathematics, fuzzy mathematics, operational research, econometrics, etc., resulting in fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (Li et al, 2018), data envelopment method (Mohd Chachuli et al, 2021), differencein-differences model (Lin et al, 2021) and other quantitative evaluation methods.…”

Section: Policy Evaluation Methodsmentioning

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Policy Optimization for Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Based on Quantitative Comparison of Regional Policies of Free Trade Port Areas

Wang

Zeng

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, as one of the first national parks established in China, should make full use of the gold brand of “Hainan Free Trade Port” and “National Park,” rely on the advantages and potential of system integration and innovation, draw on the experience of national parks in mature free trade ports (FTPs), and build a perfect national park policy system. This study introduces the PMC index model, constructs a national park policy evaluation index system, and conducts a systematic comparative analysis of 14 representative national park policies in Hainan rainforest, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The study finds that the policy of Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park is not effective enough, the policy in social and cultural fields is relatively lacking, the policy content needs to be further strengthened, and the policy functions need to be improved, etc., and puts forward corresponding suggestions for optimization.

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An exploration of policy knowledge-seeking on high-volume, low-carbon transport: findings from expert interviews in selected African and South-Asian countries

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Ghana's rice value chain resilience in the context of COVID-19

Ghana's rice value chain resilience in the context of COVID-19

Changing transport planning objectives during the Covid-19 lockdowns: Actions taken and lessons learned for enhancing sustainable urban mobility planning

Policy Optimization for Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Based on Quantitative Comparison of Regional Policies of Free Trade Port Areas

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