Land Access, Agricultural Land Use Changes and Narratives about Land Degradation in the Savannahs of Northeast Ghana during the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

Boateng, Peter Kojo

doi:10.3390/socsci6010035

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“…They transplanted their Western ways of land ownership and management to Africa through land reforms where land ownership was individualised. Commodifying land was a way of disempowering Ghanaian women from ownership and use of land as they are economically disadvantaged (Boateng, 2017;Quansah, 2012).…”

Section: Postcolonial Worship Spaces and The Place Of Women And Earthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions

Matholeni¹,

Boateng²,

Manyonganise³

2020

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Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, the plenitude of African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself (Goduka 1999). This volume brings together voices from leading proponents of ATRs and African religious heritage, bonding us all together, to help us appreciate how values are richly entrenched in African religious life. This volume demonstrates the detailed richness of ATRs and culture and showcases how far the academic study of ATRs in Africa has come.

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Section: Postcolonial Worship Spaces and The Place Of Women And Earthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions

Matholeni¹,

Boateng²,

Manyonganise³

2020

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“…In the future, the makeup of C&DW may change because ageing structures will either need renovation or come to the end of their useful lives (Boateng, 2017). How these new factors will affect C&DW composition is not known.…”

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A System Dynamic Model for Sustainable Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling in Libya

Shiboub

Assaf

2019

ESJ

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In Libya, Construction and Demolition Waste materials (C&DW) are currently thrown in landfills or illegally dumped. In regions where the C&DW is not landfilled, insufficient C&DW management fails to take advantage of the full value of the materials that could be repurposed for road construction. This research aims to develop a sustainable C&DW management model appropriate to Libya and similar countries. Over 97% of construction in Libya uses cement; therefore, this study focuses on cement production and consumption and creates a simulation to model the parts of the construction industry. This study uses System Dynamics (SD), which is a tool used by stakeholders in policy planning to make better decisions about how to manage C&DW. This study models and predicts C&DW from 2008 until 2030, taking material cost, availability, recyclability and environmental, economic and social impacts into account. The model conforms to historical data from 2008 to 2016 and then becomes a predictive model until 2030; the years following 2011 are particularly critical due to the amount of destruction and the resulting rebuilding. The model shows that having a higher collection budget does not result in better environmental outcomes unless there is money allocated for C&DW recycling. The study quantifies the amount of material in Libya generated from demolition that is not reused; this data becomes a means of analyzing the value of the waste. The model output provides important data (e.g., cement consumption, GDP) for future resource management.

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Agricultural mechanization, environmental degradation, and gendered livelihood implications in northern Ghana

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This paper draws theoretical insights from political ecology to examine the environmental and livelihood impacts of smallholder agricultural mechanization in Ghana in the context of the ongoing pursuit of a new Green Revolution for Africa. Our findings highlight the complex linkages between agricultural development, environmental degradation, and rural livelihoods. Despite the associated increased returns‐to‐scale in agricultural productivity and enhanced speed in land preparation with tractor‐based mechanization, the clearing of major trees on farmlands as a precondition for obtaining ploughing services encourages land degradation, including the depletion of vital naturally growing tree species—shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) and dawadawa (Parkia biglobosa)—that have critical food provisioning, cultural, and socioeconomic value. The drive towards extensification has further produced competitive forces that fuel the appropriation of previously inalienable communal lands and weakening of longstanding norms that mediate environmental resource conservation and use. This situation is poised to alter customary land governance and the basis on which women assert their rights to land‐based resources including shea and dawadawa. Marginalized women are progressively shifting their livelihood strategies into environmentally unsustainable subsistence activities. This study demonstrates the adverse ecological, socioeconomic, and political impacts of agricultural mechanization when implemented in agrarian societies marked by widespread poverty and pervasive gender inequities. Given the growing centrality of tractors and trees to rural livelihoods, we recommend conservation agriculture for the simultaneous promotion of sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation. Relevant social policies must also be implemented to ameliorate the adverse livelihood impacts of these agrarian reforms.

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Land Access, Agricultural Land Use Changes and Narratives about Land Degradation in the Savannahs of Northeast Ghana during the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions

Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African Indigenous Religions

A System Dynamic Model for Sustainable Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling in Libya

Agricultural mechanization, environmental degradation, and gendered livelihood implications in northern Ghana

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