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Using Participatory Approaches to Enhance Women’s Engagement in Natural Resource Management in Northern Ghana

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Title Using Participatory Approaches to Enhance Women’s Engagement in Natural Resource Management in Northern Ghana
 
Creator Cronkleton, P.
Evans, K.
Addoah, T.
Smith Dumont, E.
Zida, M.
Djoudi, H.
 
Subject small scale farming
natural resource management
indigenous knowledge
 
Description From 2016–2019, the West African Forest-Farm Interface (WAFFI) project engaged with smallholder farmers in northern Ghana to explore mechanisms to improve the influence of under-represented peoples, particularly women, in decision-making processes and platforms that affect their access to natural resources. Through a multi-phase process of participatory activities, including auto-appraisal, participatory action research (PAR) and facilitated knowledge exchange, villagers and researchers worked together to document and develop a better understanding of the challenges and changes facing women and men in the region to generate social learning. Among these challenges, the degradation of forest resources due to over exploitation, weak governance and conflict of use over shea trees (Vitellaria paradoxa) were particularly important for women. The WAFFI approach created a scaffold for social learning that strengthened the capacity of local stakeholders to share their perspectives and opinions more effectively in multi-stakeholder forums and dialogue related to resource use and land use change initiatives.
 
Date 2021-06-23
2021-07-28T02:04:47Z
2021-07-28T02:04:47Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Cronkleton, P., Evans, K., Addoah, T., Smith Dumont, E., Zida, M., Djoudi, H. 2021. Using Participatory Approaches to Enhance Women’s Engagement in Natural Resource Management in Northern Ghana. Sustainability 13(13), 7072. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137072
2071-1050
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114426
https://www.cifor.org/library/8073
https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137072
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 7072
 
Publisher MDPI AG
 
Source Sustainability