NGOs and sustainable rural development: experience from Upper West Region of Ghana

Forkuor, David; Korah, Andrews

doi:10.1007/s10668-021-02057-w

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“…For instance, World Vision International provides loans for shea nut extraction and petty trading. Others such as ProNet and Care International provide farm inputs and entrepreneurial training programs for women 73 .…”

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“…In addressing this, female smallholder farmers with no formal education engage in traditional non-farm activities such as weaving, and petty trading. These traditional activities often involve renewable materials such as cotton and minimal chemical inputs which reduce the ecological footprints 73 .…”

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Merging adoption of natural climate solutions in agriculture with climatic and non-climatic risks within an (intra)gendered framework

Antwi

2024

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The extant research on climate variability shares significant theoretical contributions to vulnerability and risks. However, the literature mostly focuses on technical solutions to climate extremes which undermines efforts to identify and solve the dynamics within gender groups in using agricultural-based natural climate solutions (NCS) to address climatic and non-climatic risks. With this in mind, this study implements both quantitative and qualitative approaches including household surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions to investigate the adoption of NCS within gender groups to address climatic and non-climatic risks in three selected communities (Katanga, Dakio, and Zonno) in the Bolgatanga East District of Upper East Region of Ghana. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to rank the key climatic and non-climatic risks confronting smallholder farmers in the district. Male and female smallholder farmers affirmed that there has been variation in the climate compared to their childhood. The results indicated climate change-induced erosion (RII = 0.268) as the highest climatic risk among male smallholder farmers. Increased bushfire (RII = 0.263) was the highest climatic risk affecting female smallholder farmers. The findings show that the high cost of farm inputs (RII = 0.505) is the highest non-climatic risk among the male smallholder farmers whereas inadequate credit facilities (RII = 0.295) affected most of the female smallholder farmers. In adapting to the climatic risks, both male and female smallholder farmers with no formal education plant early maturing crop varieties and cover crops on their farmland. Others engage in traditional non-farm activities such as weaving by using renewable materials with reduced ecological footprints to address non-climatic risks. The male and female smallholder farmers with post-secondary education typically resort to temporal migration during the dry season to work on non-farm jobs. Acknowledging the intra-gendered adoption of NCS among marginalized farming households; not only protects against maladaptation but also improves local-level resilience and climate risk management in Ghana.

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Merging adoption of natural climate solutions in agriculture with climatic and non-climatic risks within an (intra)gendered framework

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2024

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“…It is worth noting that some literature describes the poverty alleviation practices and mechanisms of some specific type of subject and organization of social assistance (such as education assistance, village task force, social work and cultural poverty alleviation by the non-profit bookstore) (Kumi & Copestake, 2022;Forkuor & Korah, 2022) [19,20].…”

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Paired assistance and poverty alleviation: Experience and evidence from China

Wang,

Tian,

Zhu

2024

PLoS ONE

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This paper used the micro panel data from 2016 to 2019 of 2031 registered poor households in B Town, W County, Lu’an City of Anhui Province in China to analyze the diversified patterns and poverty alleviation effect of paired assistance based on the PSM-DID model. The empirical results show that paired assistance provided by social forces can significantly contribute to the poverty alleviation of poor households, promoting the poverty alleviation rate by 7.8%, which can be concluded through sample matching and control of relevant variables. Furthermore, based on the subsample of poor households with social assistance, we found that external social assistance subject to paired assistance can significantly improve the poverty alleviation rate of poor households by 14.26%, mainly hung on their economic base and strength of poverty alleviation.

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“…In the environmental cluster, studies have highlighted the need to reduce carbon emissions (Coller et al, 2021;Khurshid et al, 2022), use renewable energy to improve energy efficiency (Irfan et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2021), biodiversity (Teraa & Bencherif, 2022), and the importance of preserving the environment for poor communities (Forkuor & Korah, 2023;Ho et al, 2022).…”

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Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

Ellili

2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study aims to highlight the current trends in the literature on sustainability by applying a bibliometric review of papers on sustainability published in Environment, Development and Sustainability . Bibliometric analysis is a quantitative approach to bibliographic materials that highlights the core theoretical and empirical research on a specific field. In addition, it allows the classification of previous studies. Previous bibliometric reviewers were limited to sustainability papers in specific industries, while this study considers all papers on sustainability to provide further insights on overall sustainability topics. The analysis was based on keyword cartography analysis, bibliometric authors’ citation analysis, bibliometric papers’ citation analysis, bibliometric references’ co-citation analysis, journals’ co-citation cartography, and qualitative content analysis. A total of 997 articles on sustainability were reviewed. Bibliometric analysis was performed using VOSviewer and content analysis was performed using WordStat. Six major clusters were identified: environmental sustainability, sustainable development, urban sustainability, ecological footprint, environment, and climate change. In addition, the results reveal that Environment, Development and Sustainability has increasingly experienced important growth in research papers and citations, reflecting its significant contribution to the sustainability research field. In addition, this study presents recommendations for future research opportunities in the field of sustainability. The findings of this study have implications for sustainability research, such as the assessment of environmental and social sustainability in multinational institutional contexts and across industries as well as the examination of the impact of environmental and social sustainability on different corporate aspects and decisions. This study is the only one to review the key topics on which papers published in Environment, Development and Sustainability are focused and can be largely used for sustainability practices. This study provides an overview of how the literature on sustainability has developed, as well as a summary of the most productive authors, along with countries, organizations, and journal sources. This offers an opportunity for future research to focus on this topic.

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NGOs and sustainable rural development: experience from Upper West Region of Ghana

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Merging adoption of natural climate solutions in agriculture with climatic and non-climatic risks within an (intra)gendered framework

Merging adoption of natural climate solutions in agriculture with climatic and non-climatic risks within an (intra)gendered framework

Paired assistance and poverty alleviation: Experience and evidence from China

Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

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