Interaction between agroforestry and women's land tenure security in sub-Saharan Africa: A matrilocal perspective

Benjamin, Emmanuel Olatunbosun; Ola, Oreoluwa; Sauer, Johannes; Buchenrieder, Gertrud

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102617

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“…The disruption to food systems due to these external shocks has again raised the debate on local food production and supply and value chains. However, dietary diversification through home gardens and small livestock could help improving FNS, especially among vulnerable groups such as women and the youth [8,29]. Due to its modest requirements regarding land and water, RAS can be perceived as a longer-term adaptive strategy for food accessibility and nutritional provision among families and communities in urban areas of developing countries [24,26].…”

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Technology-Business-Management of Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

Benjamin¹,

Ola²,

Buchenrieder³

2022

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The urban population in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is rapidly increas-ing. As towns and cities grow, so does the demand for fish protein. While flow-through aqua-culture can provide fresh, healthy and nutritious fish protein, it is plagued by extensive land re-quirement as well as effluent discharge, thus, unsuitable for city regions. Alternatively, small-scale Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) could improve food and nutritional security (FNS), livelihoods as well as reduce environmental degradation in urban areas despite land and water constraints. The question however remains - what are the key technical, business and managerial issues, surrounding small-scale RAS in urban farming? This study reviews the RAS prototype of the Sustainable Aquaponics for Nutritional and Food Security in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa (SANFU) II project based on mass balance and stock density, relevant for fish survival and/or availability as well as net cash-flow analyses. The results suggest that small-scale RAS are technically and financially viable only with family labor having proper aquaculture monitoring and management skills. Furthermore, access to adequate equipment and inputs as well as electricity for the recirculating system are crucial. Urban innovation actors will adopt RAS if operations are profitable given that family labor is employed.

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Technology-Business-Management of Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

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Ola²,

Buchenrieder³

2022

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“…The key political interest of endogenous actors in FLR is land ownership rights. In Malawi, for example, most women who marry and reside in communities outside their native communities usually invest in agroforestry to legitimize their land ownership rights after purchasing a land (Benjamin et al 2021).…”

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Outcomes of Forest Landscape Restoration Shaped by Endogenous or Exogenous Actors and Institutions? A Systematic Review on Sub-Saharan Africa

Owusu

Kimengsi

Gießen

2023

Environmental Management

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Although ambitious, forest landscape restoration (FLR) is still very high on global climate change mitigation and adaptation research and policy agendas. The scientific literature highlights the importance of institutions and actors’ collaboration for achieving the intended outcomes. Despite these diffuse indications, a comprehensive understanding of the role played by different types of actors and institutions in shaping FLR outcomes is missing. This hinders the definition of an actor-cum-institutions research agenda for FLR, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, in this region, different actors with diverse interests shape FLR practices. Likewise, formal and informal institutions are known to collide frequently. Hence, this paper addresses the lacunae by systematically reviewing FLR actors’ interests and power manifestations and the typologies of institutions linked to FLR outcomes in SSA. The review further defines future research agendas on actors and institutions in SSA. The following lessons can be drawn from the review of 75 peer-reviewed journal articles: First, while exogenous actors are interested more in the ecological benefits of FLR, endogenous actors are interested in economic ones. Second, exogenous actors mostly use (dis-)incentives and coercion to shape the behavior of endogenous actors in FLR. Finally, while the exogenous formal institutional typology produces positive and negative ecological, economic, political, and sociocultural FLR outcomes, the endogenous formal and informal institutions produce only positive outcomes. Future studies should identify actors’ compliance levels of the exogenous and endogenous formal and informal typologies of institutions. Future studies should also analyze the effectiveness of FLR-linked institutions towards ensuring successful FLR.

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“…179–199). Holden et al (2006, p. 60) observe that patrilocal residence allows married matrilineal male partners to manage farmland allocation in their matrilineal home villages either as the village headman or the chief guardian (Nkhoswe) of the matrilineal group (Benjamin et al, 2021, p. 102617; Chamberlin & Ricker‐Gilbert, 2016, p. 1509).…”

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The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi

Maduekwe

Buchenrieder

2022

Review Development Economics

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Interaction between agroforestry and women's land tenure security in sub-Saharan Africa: A matrilocal perspective

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Technology-Business-Management of Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

Technology-Business-Management of Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) for Sustainable Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities

Outcomes of Forest Landscape Restoration Shaped by Endogenous or Exogenous Actors and Institutions? A Systematic Review on Sub-Saharan Africa

The effect of negative human recognition on farmland access and well‐being: Evidence from women farmers in Malawi

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