Ecosystem services trade-offs from high fuelwood use for traditional shea butter processing in semi-arid Ghana

Jasaw, Godfred Seidu; Saito, Osamu; Gasparatos, Alexandros; Shoyama, Kikuko; Boafo, Yaw Agyeman; Takeuchi, Kazuhiko

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.09.003

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“…For example, the marketing of products, such as groundnuts, or value-added products, such as shea butter, soap [60], and woven smocks, would improve income generation. The registration of women-owned small businesses as formal entities would also provide wider opportunities for expansion.…”

Section: Gender Inclusivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A World Bank [61] program that transitions adolescent girls and young women from school to productive employment in Liberia, Rwanda, and South Sudan is an example of this. For example, the marketing of products, such as groundnuts, or value-added products, such as shea butter, soap [60], and woven smocks, would improve income generation. The registration of women-owned small businesses as formal entities would also provide wider opportunities for expansion.…”

Section: Gender Inclusivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

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Urban-rural linkages are an integral part of fostering development in both urban and rural communities. However, the focus on development tends to have an urban bias toward Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an increase in urbanization. Ghana is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in SSA. This paper sought to identify the challenges of urban-rural linkages, their corresponding solutions, and contributions to Agenda 2030 that are context-specific to Ghana through a stepwise solution scanning technique. In step 1, the study applied a scoping process to identify the urban-rural challenges. In step 2, a solution for the identified urban-rural challenges in step 1 was co-designed. In step 3, each identified solution was assessed based on its potential to contribute to all three pillars of sustainability by ranking and prioritization. In step 4, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) interlinkages of the top five prioritized potential solutions were analyzed. The identified challenges were (1) inequality and gender gaps, (2) poor and lack of basic and economic infrastructures, (3) the limited effectiveness of decentralization, and (4) food and nutrition security dynamics. The prioritized potential solutions were gender inclusiveness, investment in infrastructures, sustainable agricultural systems, effective decentralization, and financial inclusion. This study recommends maximizing the synergies and minimizing the trade-offs between the SDGs of the potential solutions identified.

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“…Therefore, plantation of high economic value NTFP commodities needs to be increased, as a substitute for community income sources derived from the sale of fuelwood (Mukul 2016;Uprety et al 2016;Hussain et al 2019). This mechanism helps protect high conservation value wood species not used as fuelwood, so they can support carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation (Kongsager and Corbera 2015;Jasaw et al 2017;Tamang et al 2019;Aggarwal and Brockington 2020).…”

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Sustaining farmers livelihoods through community forestry in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Njurumana¹,

Ginoga²,

Octavia³

2020

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Abstract. Njurumana GN, Ginoga KL, Octavia D. 2020. Sustaining farmers livelihoods through community forestry in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 3786-3796. One of the goals of managing global forest ecosystems today is to synergize their socio-economic, ecological and community livelihood benefits. Each forest type has various socio-economic and ecological characteristics that influence its management strategies and the provision services to the community. In general, the socio-economic benefits of forests in supporting community livelihoods are well known, however, the information which is specifically relevant to tropical monsoon forests is still very limited. This research aims to fill this knowledge gap, by providing information about the socio-economic conditions and provision of services of tropical monsoon forests to people's livelihoods. The research was conducted through structured interviews, FGDs, and field observations, by an analysis unit in community forests in the Sikka district. The information obtained was analyzed through descriptively qualitative and quantitative methods. The results showed an imbalance between the socio-economic conditions of people who rely on the tropical monsoon forest for their livelihoods and the carrying capacity of fuelwood, food, and fodder supply. This imbalance is due to the weak synergy and organization of stakeholders in optimizing how the provision services of forests are used to support farmers' livelihoods. Farmers' dependence on the tropical forest services is still high, therefore the strengthening of farmers' institutions becomes a key factor that determines sustainable management of the forest and enhances the value of its benefits to the community.

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“…Deforestation contributes as much as a fifth of the human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [33,39] mainly made of carbon dioxide [10]. Smallholder farmers are susceptible to the negative effects of climate change and variability because they depend on naturally occurring rainfall for their agricultural activities [68].…”

Section: Implications To Forest Landscapes -Climate Changementioning

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“…Land-use changes especially paving way for agriculture, settlement, unplanned bush fires; livestock grazing and the deliberate cutting down of trees, though seen to be happening at a local level, are prevalent in southern Africa and play a role in global warming [6,38,68]. This is in addition to the cutting down of trees as part of the demand for energy by the majority of the rural population in developing countries [33,39].…”

Section: Implications To Forest Landscapes -Climate Changementioning

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The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

Kamuti¹

2018

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The increase in tobacco production while ameliorating the condition of the participant households has caused challenges to stakeholders particularly those in the governance of forest resources upon which the sector is hinged. Massive deforestation has proceeded at an alarmingly high level, in a way that threatens the long term viability of the tobacco sector and sustainability of natural forest resources. The entrance of previously disadvantaged majority into the once minority-dominated tobacco sector (and economy) in a quest to improving their livelihoods, is driving forest landscape changes that pose inherent environmental challenges including climate change. This article adopts institutional and landscape approaches to explore and explain the drivers, nexus and implications of smallholder tobacco as a livelihood strategy to the forest landscape changes and the subsequent imperative for governance of the sustainable utilization of forest resources in Zimbabwe. Drawing on documentary evidence the paper concludes that this situation poses a dilemma to forest and livelihood policies, hence the need to examine new institutional and livelihood initiatives.

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Ecosystem services trade-offs from high fuelwood use for traditional shea butter processing in semi-arid Ghana

Cited by 15 publications

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Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

Challenges and Potential Solutions for Sustainable Urban-Rural Linkages in a Ghanaian Context

Sustaining farmers livelihoods through community forestry in Sikka, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

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