Pub Date : 2021-09-05DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1971096
A. Agyei-Holmes, D. Ankrah, A. Boakye
ABSTRACT Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) intertwined with a food security resilience framework was used to understand Ghana’s agricultural food system resilience to COVID-19 from a production perspective using a qualitative approach. Agricultural production remained fairly resilient but plagued with labor mobility challenges that delayed production. Specific results showed self-sufficiency in the production of roots and tubers, deficiency in the production of cereals and poultry. Opportunities do exist in rice production. Fall Army Worm invasion threatened cereal production. The government is encouraged to increase funding investment through public-private partnerships to build warehouses and increase production in meeting domestic supply needs.
{"title":"COVID-19 and Ghana’s agri-food system: an assessment of resilience","authors":"A. Agyei-Holmes, D. Ankrah, A. Boakye","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1971096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1971096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) intertwined with a food security resilience framework was used to understand Ghana’s agricultural food system resilience to COVID-19 from a production perspective using a qualitative approach. Agricultural production remained fairly resilient but plagued with labor mobility challenges that delayed production. Specific results showed self-sufficiency in the production of roots and tubers, deficiency in the production of cereals and poultry. Opportunities do exist in rice production. Fall Army Worm invasion threatened cereal production. The government is encouraged to increase funding investment through public-private partnerships to build warehouses and increase production in meeting domestic supply needs.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"85 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41447148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-05DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1974902
Gaspar Sebastião Francisco Cristóvão, Gerson Araújo de Medeiros, S. Mancini, Jeremias Dadula Pessela
ABSTRACT The present work aimed to evaluate the efficiency of the municipal solid waste (MSW) management system in Kuito, Angola, using an efficiency index (MSWEI) adapted to African conditions. Four dimensions constitute MSWEI: governance; gravimetry and logistics; sorting, valuation, and composting; and final disposal. The MSWEI reached 37.6%, corresponding to an inadequate MSW management system. The main MSW management guidelines include the development of environmental education; selective collection, sorting of dry recyclable materials and shipping to the capital Luanda; composting of the organic waste; creation of an inter-municipality consortium to share the costs of a landfill.
{"title":"Index for the assessment of municipal solid waste management in Angola: a case study in kuito, bié province","authors":"Gaspar Sebastião Francisco Cristóvão, Gerson Araújo de Medeiros, S. Mancini, Jeremias Dadula Pessela","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1974902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1974902","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present work aimed to evaluate the efficiency of the municipal solid waste (MSW) management system in Kuito, Angola, using an efficiency index (MSWEI) adapted to African conditions. Four dimensions constitute MSWEI: governance; gravimetry and logistics; sorting, valuation, and composting; and final disposal. The MSWEI reached 37.6%, corresponding to an inadequate MSW management system. The main MSW management guidelines include the development of environmental education; selective collection, sorting of dry recyclable materials and shipping to the capital Luanda; composting of the organic waste; creation of an inter-municipality consortium to share the costs of a landfill.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"545 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59976591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1968445
C. Amoako, Benjamin Doe, R. Adamtey
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of place attachment among flood victims in the two low-income communities of Aboabo and Asawase in Kumasi, Ghana. It draws on empirical evidences from 203 households and key informants to explore the enduring communal mobilisation and social capital exhibited by victims during and after floods. The study reveals context-specific structural and non-structural coping strategies, shaped by intense local knowledge, lived experiences and attachment to place of affected households. We recommend that local knowledge and residents' attachments to their neighbourhoods be mainstreamed into the design of community-based flood risk management frameworks.
{"title":"Flood Responses and Attachment to Place Within Low-Income Neigbourhoods in Kumasi, Ghana","authors":"C. Amoako, Benjamin Doe, R. Adamtey","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1968445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1968445","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of place attachment among flood victims in the two low-income communities of Aboabo and Asawase in Kumasi, Ghana. It draws on empirical evidences from 203 households and key informants to explore the enduring communal mobilisation and social capital exhibited by victims during and after floods. The study reveals context-specific structural and non-structural coping strategies, shaped by intense local knowledge, lived experiences and attachment to place of affected households. We recommend that local knowledge and residents' attachments to their neighbourhoods be mainstreamed into the design of community-based flood risk management frameworks.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49027881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-30DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1961089
J. Oduro Appiah, Williams Agyemang-Duah, D. Adei, Augustus Kweku Sobeng, J. Adomako, Prince Peprah
ABSTRACT Using questionnaire surveys and drawing on the co-cultural theory, this study examines the spatial, demographic, and socioeconomic factors influencing the awareness of land use and forest reserve regulations among forest fringe communities in the Tano-Offin forest reserve in Ghana. The study finds that high-income community members are significantly more likely to be aware of the regulations. Additionally, women and migrants are significantly less likely to be aware of the regulations. These results suggest that there is a need to rethink awareness creation strategies and make relentless efforts to involve the excluded and the marginalized, especially women, in the information-sharing streams..
{"title":"Factors associated with community awareness of forest reserve regulations in the Tano-Offin forest reserve in Ghana","authors":"J. Oduro Appiah, Williams Agyemang-Duah, D. Adei, Augustus Kweku Sobeng, J. Adomako, Prince Peprah","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1961089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1961089","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using questionnaire surveys and drawing on the co-cultural theory, this study examines the spatial, demographic, and socioeconomic factors influencing the awareness of land use and forest reserve regulations among forest fringe communities in the Tano-Offin forest reserve in Ghana. The study finds that high-income community members are significantly more likely to be aware of the regulations. Additionally, women and migrants are significantly less likely to be aware of the regulations. These results suggest that there is a need to rethink awareness creation strategies and make relentless efforts to involve the excluded and the marginalized, especially women, in the information-sharing streams..","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"498 - 515"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42241868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-27DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1970596
Kwadwo A. Boakye, A. Iyanda, J. Oppong
ABSTRACT There is a lack of studies in sub-Saharan African countries, specifically Ghana, demonstrating the relationship between greenness and hypertension. We use Greenness (Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI) data to examine its association on hypertension among Ghanaian adults in urban areas. Participants with higher exposure to greenness was significantly associated with lower odds of hypertension OR: 0.63 (95% CI:0.41–0.95) than participants with low levels of greenness exposure. Our findings recommend a positive attitudinal change toward the preservation of green spaces as well as the allocation and prioritization of green spaces by policymakers in areas rapidly undergoing urbanization.
{"title":"Urban greenness and hypertension among Ghanaian adults","authors":"Kwadwo A. Boakye, A. Iyanda, J. Oppong","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1970596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1970596","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is a lack of studies in sub-Saharan African countries, specifically Ghana, demonstrating the relationship between greenness and hypertension. We use Greenness (Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI) data to examine its association on hypertension among Ghanaian adults in urban areas. Participants with higher exposure to greenness was significantly associated with lower odds of hypertension OR: 0.63 (95% CI:0.41–0.95) than participants with low levels of greenness exposure. Our findings recommend a positive attitudinal change toward the preservation of green spaces as well as the allocation and prioritization of green spaces by policymakers in areas rapidly undergoing urbanization.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"72 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-24DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1963296
Richard Adeleke, A. Iyanda, T. Osayomi, Opeyemi Alabede
ABSTRACT Female Internet use is at a low ebb in less developed countries, which means that females cannot participate effectively in a digital society. Consequently, this paper examined the patterns, constraints and drivers of female Internet use in Nigeria. Using spatial and aspatial techniques, we uncover spatial hot and cold spots while logistic regression analysis found that wealth status, urbanity, age, women’s autonomy, and education significantly predict female Internet use. The study recommends that emphasis should be placed on gender equality and urban digital inclusion to increase female Internet use in Nigeria.
{"title":"Tackling female digital exclusion: drivers and constraints of female Internet use in Nigeria","authors":"Richard Adeleke, A. Iyanda, T. Osayomi, Opeyemi Alabede","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1963296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1963296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Female Internet use is at a low ebb in less developed countries, which means that females cannot participate effectively in a digital society. Consequently, this paper examined the patterns, constraints and drivers of female Internet use in Nigeria. Using spatial and aspatial techniques, we uncover spatial hot and cold spots while logistic regression analysis found that wealth status, urbanity, age, women’s autonomy, and education significantly predict female Internet use. The study recommends that emphasis should be placed on gender equality and urban digital inclusion to increase female Internet use in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"531 - 544"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46136649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-22DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1962374
G. Y. Ofgeha, M. W. Abshire
ABSTRACT We examined the micro-scale spatiotemporal dynamics in structural land use and its differential impacts on small-scale farmers’ access to land resources in Anger watershed, southwestern Ethiopia. The analysis of historical land use land cover change detections was integrated with data obtained from 335 households, group discussants, and interviews with experts and officials. The results revealed that agricultural land and settlements increased at the expense of other land covers. These conditions were severe in the kolla agroecology due to unique historical land-use dynamics mainly in late 1976+ and since 1988 which were associated with the state-farm and private investment respectively. The process affects small-scale farmers’ access to land and natural resources and contributed to differential livelihood adverse. The kolla community expressed land deal processes in the area negatively, labeled the investment activities as contrasting to investment initiatives of the country, and the conditions have been compromising their livelihood system. Thus, the issues of land resources rights of the local community and the state policy dynamics on the land investments, mainly referring to the livelihood systems in the kolla agroecology seek more attention. The development interventions such as the large-scale agricultural investments in the area need a prior policy and strategic planning on how to realize the sustainable co-existence among the large-scale investors, local community, and natural environment.
{"title":"Structural land use dynamics and its implications on the local community’s access to land resources in Anger watershed, Southwestern Ethiopia","authors":"G. Y. Ofgeha, M. W. Abshire","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1962374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1962374","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We examined the micro-scale spatiotemporal dynamics in structural land use and its differential impacts on small-scale farmers’ access to land resources in Anger watershed, southwestern Ethiopia. The analysis of historical land use land cover change detections was integrated with data obtained from 335 households, group discussants, and interviews with experts and officials. The results revealed that agricultural land and settlements increased at the expense of other land covers. These conditions were severe in the kolla agroecology due to unique historical land-use dynamics mainly in late 1976+ and since 1988 which were associated with the state-farm and private investment respectively. The process affects small-scale farmers’ access to land and natural resources and contributed to differential livelihood adverse. The kolla community expressed land deal processes in the area negatively, labeled the investment activities as contrasting to investment initiatives of the country, and the conditions have been compromising their livelihood system. Thus, the issues of land resources rights of the local community and the state policy dynamics on the land investments, mainly referring to the livelihood systems in the kolla agroecology seek more attention. The development interventions such as the large-scale agricultural investments in the area need a prior policy and strategic planning on how to realize the sustainable co-existence among the large-scale investors, local community, and natural environment.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"516 - 530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-11DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1958691
D. Ankrah, A. Agyei-Holmes, A. Boakye
ABSTRACT This article articulates the usefulness of a participatory farm budget in addressing challenges associated with the recall of agricultural prices, inputs, outputs, and estimate biases in the global south. The study is foregrounded in a qualitative paradigm. Participatory farm budgeting is a method that permits stakeholders to analyze, quantify input, output resources, and farm profit. The method highlighted higher economic returns associated with sucker production, an aspect neglected and trivialized by the conventional farm methods. We recommend dedicated attention to harness the economic benefits derived from sucker production through the radical use of the participatory farm budget.
{"title":"Participatory farm budgeting – A case of pineapple farmers in ghana","authors":"D. Ankrah, A. Agyei-Holmes, A. Boakye","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1958691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1958691","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article articulates the usefulness of a participatory farm budget in addressing challenges associated with the recall of agricultural prices, inputs, outputs, and estimate biases in the global south. The study is foregrounded in a qualitative paradigm. Participatory farm budgeting is a method that permits stakeholders to analyze, quantify input, output resources, and farm profit. The method highlighted higher economic returns associated with sucker production, an aspect neglected and trivialized by the conventional farm methods. We recommend dedicated attention to harness the economic benefits derived from sucker production through the radical use of the participatory farm budget.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"483 - 497"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42953614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-20DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1945467
J.F. Régis Nisengwe, Tom Gill, D. Ader, H. Goertz
ABSTRACT The poultry production model is an efficiently intensified small-scale production model. One of the best ways to measure the efficiency of poultry production is the feed conversion ratio (FCR). This study investigated factors that influence the FCR while considering spatial autocorrelations. A random sample of 320 broiler chicken farmers in Musanze district, northern Rwanda was collected and the Spatial Error Model (SEM) was used for analysis. Results revealed a spatial autocorrelation and relationships between FCR and some factors. This study advances our understanding of sustainable intensification and contributes to the design of future investments and interventions in broiler chicken production.
{"title":"A spatial analysis of feed conversion ratio: a case study of broiler chickens in Musanze District, Northern Rwanda","authors":"J.F. Régis Nisengwe, Tom Gill, D. Ader, H. Goertz","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1945467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1945467","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The poultry production model is an efficiently intensified small-scale production model. One of the best ways to measure the efficiency of poultry production is the feed conversion ratio (FCR). This study investigated factors that influence the FCR while considering spatial autocorrelations. A random sample of 320 broiler chicken farmers in Musanze district, northern Rwanda was collected and the Spatial Error Model (SEM) was used for analysis. Results revealed a spatial autocorrelation and relationships between FCR and some factors. This study advances our understanding of sustainable intensification and contributes to the design of future investments and interventions in broiler chicken production.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"397 - 410"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376812.2021.1945467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47063348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1947333
U. Akpovwovwo, A. Gbadegesin
ABSTRACT This study examined species composition and occurrence pattern among mangroves across the Western Niger Delta. Vegetation measurements were carried out in one hundred quadrats of 20m by 20m. Rhizophora spp was dominant in Burutu, Opuama, Kurutie, Control (Importance Value Index =300, 177.28, 237.65, 300). A.germinans was dominant in Agge (IVI =183.03). Adult Rhizophora spp were dispersed in Agge, Burutu, Control (Morisita Index =0.25, 1.02, 0.025). Adult A. germinans were dispersed in Kurutie, Opuama, Agge (MI =0.07, 0.08, 0.26). Rhizophora spp juveniles were clustered in Agge, Burutu, Opuama, Kurutie, Control (MI =1.17, 1.86, 1.47, 1.9, 1.14). A. germinans juveniles were dispersed in Kurutie, Agge (MI =0.06, 0.69). Restoration and conservation programs should be established.
{"title":"Species composition and distribution patterns of the Mangrove forests of the Western Niger Delta, Nigeria","authors":"U. Akpovwovwo, A. Gbadegesin","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1947333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1947333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined species composition and occurrence pattern among mangroves across the Western Niger Delta. Vegetation measurements were carried out in one hundred quadrats of 20m by 20m. Rhizophora spp was dominant in Burutu, Opuama, Kurutie, Control (Importance Value Index =300, 177.28, 237.65, 300). A.germinans was dominant in Agge (IVI =183.03). Adult Rhizophora spp were dispersed in Agge, Burutu, Control (Morisita Index =0.25, 1.02, 0.025). Adult A. germinans were dispersed in Kurutie, Opuama, Agge (MI =0.07, 0.08, 0.26). Rhizophora spp juveniles were clustered in Agge, Burutu, Opuama, Kurutie, Control (MI =1.17, 1.86, 1.47, 1.9, 1.14). A. germinans juveniles were dispersed in Kurutie, Agge (MI =0.06, 0.69). Restoration and conservation programs should be established.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"468 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19376812.2021.1947333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43295995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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