Facipulation and Elite Formation: Community Resource Management in Southwestern Ghana

Baruah, Manali

doi:10.4103/cs.cs_16_108

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“…Activities overseen by CREMAs include: promotion of climate-smart cocoa production such as the integration of indigenous trees within cocoa production, the production of other cash/tree crops such as shea nuts in agroforestry landscapes in the savanna region, and commercial tree plantations of fast-growing exotic species. Recent interest in forest restoration as part of Ghana's national REDD+ process 5 has led to the adoption of the CREMA concept as a means to deliver emission reductions from land-use change (Asare et al, 2013;Baruah, 2017).…”

Section: Experiences From Ghanathe Crema Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…IUCN, together with local NGO partners, has been promoting rights-based landscape governance processes through CREMAs for over a decade in Ghana's western region and more recently, in the northern savanna zone. Local NGOs have played an important role in facilitating the establishment and development of CREMAs, in the absence of support from government assistance, which is largely absent due to lack of funds (Baruah, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their inauguration takes place following the issuance of a Certificate of Devolution from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, and much of the support provided to CREMAs is facilitated by the Wildlife Division (together with supporting NGOs). Given this, management institutions see themselves as dependent on and accountable to the Wildlife Division and NGOs, rather than downwardly accountable to their own members (Baruah, 2013;Baruah, 2017). Even though © Mengina Gilli decentralised or local authorities also have a key role in the approval of the by-laws of the CREMAs, in many cases, there are very limited links to local governments once these by-laws are passed.…”

Section: Strengths and Weaknesses Of Community Resource Management Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A fourth challenge, driven by weak governance, poor downward accountability and low levels of transparency is that of elite capture -the concentration and capture of benefits by leaders and managers (Baruah, 2017). If management decisions threaten the activities of more powerful interests, these powerful interests can potentially co-opt or threaten management institutions in ways that make the CREMA functionally inoperative.…”

Section: Strengths and Weaknesses Of Community Resource Management Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The CREMA had historically been supported by an Accra-based NGO and in 2010, the CREMA was granted a Certification of Devolution by the government, transferring the authority for management and utilisation of resources within the CREMA to the people in participating villages. During community meetings facilitated by IUCN, it became apparent that there was widespread dissatisfaction with how the CREMA was governed, and in particular it was felt that leaders were unresponsive, unaccountable and untrustworthy (Baruah, 2017).…”

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We wish to thank Marie Fischborn who helped provide much of the case study material from the Panorama database for chapter 4. Thanks also to Jackie Siles who reviewed chapter 4. Secondly, we wish to acknowledge inputs from Gill Shepherd and Harry Jonas for their thorough reviews of this publication, and to Cheryl Rosebush for her valuable editorial feedback. We would also like to thank Corbett Nash for guiding us through the entire editing and publication process, and producing the figures. Finally, we wish to thank the Danish Government, whose funding of the IUCN "Towards pro-poor REDD+ Project" made this publication possible, and to other donors who funded some of the case studies, including Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature, Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.

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Section: Experiences From Ghanathe Crema Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Strengths and Weaknesses Of Community Resource Management Areasmentioning

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The impact of community-led conservation models on women's nature-based livelihood outcomes in semi-arid Northern Ghana

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Kansanga

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With increasing human-induced environmental degradation, women's nature-based livelihood activities are threatened. In semi-arid northern Ghana, shea processing (i.e., shea butter, a derivative of shea nut from the shea tree), a vital women-dominated economic activity, is at risk as naturally occurring shea trees continue to decline in numbers and productivity. The decline of the shea tree's number and productivity and the ensuing biodiversity loss have sparked conservation efforts by governments and local communities. This includes community-led conservation models, which have recently gained traction in the Global South. Ghana implemented the Community Resource Management Areas (CREMA)—a community-led conservation model to improve biodiversity and ecosystem services, including shea trees conservation in response to climate change. Research has not explored the impacts of community-led conservation efforts on women’s nature-based livelihoods in Ghana. Using a mixed-methods approach involving surveys (n = 517) and focus group discussions (n = 8), this study explored shea productivity outcomes under CREMAs. Findings show that women residing in CREMAs had significantly better shea harvesting outcomes than those outside CREMAs (α = −53.725; P < 0.01). These findings demonstrate the potential for targeted conservation initiatives that are community-led, such as the CREMAs, to improve the conservation of economically significant naturally occurring trees like Shea. With the increasing impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, such models would be instrumental in achieving sustainable development goals like SDG5-gender equality, SDG10-reduced inequalities, SDG13-Climate action, SDG14-life below water, and SDG14-life on land.

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Facipulation and Elite Formation: Community Resource Management in Southwestern Ghana

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

A landscape for everyone: integrating rights-based and landscape governance approaches

A landscape for everyone: integrating rights-based and landscape governance approaches

Mutually-Reinforcing Transgressions of Justice in Large Scale Land Acquisitions in the ‘Public Interest’

The impact of community-led conservation models on women's nature-based livelihood outcomes in semi-arid Northern Ghana

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