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Title: | Institutionalising a community based agro-ecological management system for livelihood sustainability: challenges and prospects of the Goziir experiment in Upperwest Ghana |
Authors: | Bacho, Francis Z.L. Bonye, Samuel Z. |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Legon Journal of Sociology (ISSN 0855-6261) |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 19-37 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | sustainable agriculture livelihoods agrarian reform farming systems |
Abstract: | This paper examines the ability of peasant farmers to craft a self-regulatory institution to reinvigorate their agro-ecological system in the Goziir community of the Upper West Region of Ghana. Interactive qualitative data collection tools, such as inter-generational narratives, case histories, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were used. This approach has resulted in a high sense of commitment, acceptance of sound conservation and farming practices, compelling compliance, minimizing the risks of cross-boundary hazards, and has improved livelihoods. It is recommended that communities be engaged in policy formations and the setting up of community management systems, resources be redirected to community-based management groups and people's knowledge be appreciated as basis for development interventions. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |