Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana

Kandel, Matt; Anghileri, Daniela; Alare, Rahinatu Sidiki; Lovett, Peter N.; Agaba, Genevieve; Addoah, Thomas; Schreckenberg, Kate

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106014

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“…Analysis of WVA projects indicates the malleable nature of CSA in the specific agricultural development context in which it is applied. This has been found in recent studies also looking at similar projects to our study, indicating the importance of contextual interventions and leveraging smallholders' farm systems knowledge (Kandel et al 2022). This points towards a need to balance the donor-led requirements for CSA, for example, following metrics-based monitoring frameworks, with the non-quantifiable nature of local and indigenous knowledge in smallholder farm systems.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…This requires policy processes that can maximise expertise from both technical and community groups. NGOs like WV, which operate at the interface of communities, donors, and increasingly science (Kandel et al 2022), play a role as boundary organisations in agricultural development. Agricultural extension and knowledge exchange have always been at the boundary of science-society interfaces (Cash 2001), and CSA is a more current demonstration of such boundary work by different agencies.…”

Section: Implications For Development Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

Davila,

Jacobs,

Nadeem

et al. 2024

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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International civil society and non-government organisations (NGOs) play a role in implementing agricultural projects, which contribute to the mitigation, adaptation, and food security dimensions of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Despite the growth of CSA, it remains unclear how CSA is designed, conceptualised, and embedded into agricultural development projects led and implemented by NGOs, creating a lack of clarity as to the direction of future of agricultural development interventions. This paper examines the extent to which development programmes from the NGO sector actively incorporate CSA principles to benefit smallholder farmers under the major pillars of CSA. Drawing from six projects’ documentation since 2009, we conducted a thematic analysis to reveal the alignment of projects with the pillars of CSA and discuss the extent to which CSA allows for localised adaptability given the diverse agricultural contexts in which civil society and NGOs work. We find that despite a lack of clarity in CSA definition and focus, the agricultural practices in the six projects make heterogenous contributions to the adoption of CSA principles. We illustrate the diversity of ways in which CSA is ‘done’ by a global NGO across six areas: greening and forests, practices and knowledge exchange, markets, policy and institutions, nutrition, carbon and climate, and gender. We discuss the need for balance in contextual adaptability across the three pillars of CSA with explicit consideration of trade-offs to reduce unintended outcomes from CSA initiatives. We conclude with reflections on the role of civil society and NGOs as boundary agents in the agricultural development sector.

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Section: Implications For Development Policysupporting

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Section: Implications For Development Policymentioning

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Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

Davila,

Jacobs,

Nadeem

et al. 2024

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…2.5 million people now benefit from this improved use of land, across 25 different African countries [106]. Nonetheless, although acknowledging that where FMNR is done, benefits accrue, it has been proposed that further research is necessary to substantiate some of the claims made for the method and the underlying scientific basis for its efficacy [107,108]. In the context of trees and a changing climate, it seems appropriate to mention agroforestry, and as a lead-in to the next section, we note that FMNR has been demonstrated as a useful methodology for scaling-up the benefits of agroforestry systems [109].…”

Section: Farmer Managed Natural Regenerationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Rhodes

2024

Ecological Civilization

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There are estimated to be about 3 trillion trees on Earth, or about half the number that existed before the dawn of human civilization. Trees are vital to at least four major biogeochemical cycles, namely, the carbon, water, nitrogen and oxygen cycles. In addition to absorbing carbon, and releasing oxygen through photosynthesis, trees are critical for maintaining biodiversity, providing habitat for 80% of land based wildlife, feeding the soil, generating clouds and increasing albedo (thus causing global cooling), influencing rainfall and weather patterns. The loss of trees, therefore, weakens our chances of reaching climate and biodiversity targets, and so proforestation and other practices to stringently preserve the functionality of and holistically restore forest ecosystems, must be adopted as a matter of urgency, paying due attention to soil, and species diversity including mycorrhizae; not being limited to insouciant "tree planting" solutions. Indeed, due to the tardiness of our actions to repair the Earth and its climate, severe restrictions to the cutting of mature trees must actually be enabled globally. However, this alone is not enough, and must be integrated with other forms of land, wetland, grassland and agricultural protection and restoration. Such Nature Based Solutions could provide over one-third of the climate mitigation needed by 2030 to keep within the 2 °C global heating limit. Nonetheless, it is also critical to curb greenhouse gas emissions at source, not only by implementing low-carbon, renewable energy, but also energy demand reduction strategies, such as insulating buildings, societal relocalisation, and local food growing.

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“…In this study, three indicators-total contracted family land area (nat1), contracted family land area per capita (nat2), and individual contracted plot area (nat3)-are selected to measure NAT, respectively. Due to the constraints of natural conditions, small-scale farmers are increasingly faced with the problems of having more people and less land, insufficient arable land per capita, and fragmented plots, which make it increasingly difficult for farmers to rely on arable land resources to maintain their livelihood sustainability in daily production and operation processes [76,77]. With the further development of industrialization and urbanization, the transfer of surplus agricultural labor has promoted the integration of rural arable land resources and has accelerated land transfer.…”

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Decision-Making Mechanism of Farmers in Land Transfer Processes Based on Sustainable Livelihood Analysis Framework: A Study in Rural China

Liu,

Zhang,

et al. 2024

Land

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The act of land transfer in rural areas is an important decision-making mechanism for farmers, to enhance resource allocation efficiency and promote capital mobility, and this act is of strategic importance in promoting the level of agricultural scale and mechanization, land system change, and, thus, the sustainable development of livelihoods and production in China. This study aims to explore farmers’ decision-making mechanisms in the process of land transfer in rural areas, by constructing a theoretical framework. Structural equation modeling was used, based on data from a survey of rural families in the Liaoning Province area of Northeastern China. The main findings are as follows: (1) The seven types of exogenous latent variables, including environmental vulnerability, policy, and five main livelihood assets (natural capital, physical capital, financial capital, human capital, and social capital), are intermediary in farmers’ land transfer behavior, which then positively affect farmers’ livelihood outcomes. (2) Among the exogenous latent variables affecting farmers’ land transfer, human assets have the most significant positive effect, followed by social assets and physical assets, family labor force share, frequency of work information exchange, and number of production tools, greatly affect the corresponding variable. (3) Natural assets play the most important role and have a negative effect on farmers’ land transfer decision; contracted area of land per family is the greatest impacted measurable variable of this. The results of the study suggest that the government should strengthen skills training for farmers, improve the land transfer policy system, and provide appropriate subsidies in a regionally targeted manner. Thus, it can promote the transformation of Chinese-style agricultural modernization and achieve rural revitalization.

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Farmers’ perspectives and context are key for the success and sustainability of farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR) in northeastern Ghana

Cited by 10 publications

References 90 publications

Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

Finding climate smart agriculture in civil-society initiatives

Trees—Protectors Against a Changing Climate

Decision-Making Mechanism of Farmers in Land Transfer Processes Based on Sustainable Livelihood Analysis Framework: A Study in Rural China

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