Pub Date : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2022.2054437
A. O. Adeyefa
ABSTRACT The study assessed rainfall characteristics of early growing season (EGS) and late growing season (LGS) during significant years of extreme little dry season (LDS) in southwestern Nigeria using 39 years’ daily rainfall totals. LDS’s rainfall of 16 years including 1982, 1997, 2000, and 2017 (Abeokuta); 1994 (Benin); 1987 and 2008 (Ikeja); 1989, 1995, 2006, and 2018 (Ilorin); 1988, 1997, and 2007 (Ibadan); and 1995 and 2017 (Ondo) were significant (α = 0.05 (upper and lower tailed) with the critical value Z = 1.645). While 13 years were positively significant, only 3 were negative. Increased LDS’s rainfall has reduced the EGS and LGS’s lengths, consequently distorting the timing of agriculturally important rainfall characteristics.
{"title":"Assessment of rainfall characteristics of the early and late growing seasons during significant years of extreme little dry season in southwestern Nigeria","authors":"A. O. Adeyefa","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2022.2054437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2054437","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study assessed rainfall characteristics of early growing season (EGS) and late growing season (LGS) during significant years of extreme little dry season (LDS) in southwestern Nigeria using 39 years’ daily rainfall totals. LDS’s rainfall of 16 years including 1982, 1997, 2000, and 2017 (Abeokuta); 1994 (Benin); 1987 and 2008 (Ikeja); 1989, 1995, 2006, and 2018 (Ilorin); 1988, 1997, and 2007 (Ibadan); and 1995 and 2017 (Ondo) were significant (α = 0.05 (upper and lower tailed) with the critical value Z = 1.645). While 13 years were positively significant, only 3 were negative. Increased LDS’s rainfall has reduced the EGS and LGS’s lengths, consequently distorting the timing of agriculturally important rainfall characteristics.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"326 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42357417","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 : 2022-03-27DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2022.2054438
Sampson Edodi
ABSTRACT Several priority actions are required to ensure a healthy environment for all. One of the priority actions is to collect and manage wastes effectively and efficiently. In this theoretical study, we give a global waste management outlook, examined Africa’s waste management outlook and the impact of improper waste management, and focus on the issues and priority actions for sustainable waste management in Uganda. Further, the paper put forward that first, we should design the public sector waste reduction framework, which currently exists in most societies including the United Nations Environment. Second, design the private sector waste reduction framework, which is currently lacking in most societies. And third, develop an overlapping mechanism that would generate a stronger and more productive collaboration between the public sector and the private sector. Finally, the study advances a sustainable inclusive waste management framework to operationalize the priority actions in managing wastes in informal settlements.
{"title":"Managing the environment: issues and priority actions for sustainable waste management in Uganda","authors":"Sampson Edodi","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2022.2054438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2054438","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Several priority actions are required to ensure a healthy environment for all. One of the priority actions is to collect and manage wastes effectively and efficiently. In this theoretical study, we give a global waste management outlook, examined Africa’s waste management outlook and the impact of improper waste management, and focus on the issues and priority actions for sustainable waste management in Uganda. Further, the paper put forward that first, we should design the public sector waste reduction framework, which currently exists in most societies including the United Nations Environment. Second, design the private sector waste reduction framework, which is currently lacking in most societies. And third, develop an overlapping mechanism that would generate a stronger and more productive collaboration between the public sector and the private sector. Finally, the study advances a sustainable inclusive waste management framework to operationalize the priority actions in managing wastes in informal settlements.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"342 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45914300","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 : 2022-03-17DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2022.2054439
Sören Scholvin
ABSTRACT Cities engage in branding to present themselves as attractive locations. Some seek to gain recognition as world cities this way. The article identifies liveable environments with inclusive societies, events/mega-events, and iconic architecture as key components of such strategies. These thoughts are applied to Cape Town and Johannesburg. The former brands itself as an ‘opportunity city.’ It fits well into world city making through attraction as a place to live and work, and a related focus on the knowledge elite. Johannesburg, meanwhile, presents itself as the ‘gateway’ to Africa against the backdrop of infrastructures for communication, finance, and transport.
{"title":"World city making by branding: insights from Cape Town and Johannesburg","authors":"Sören Scholvin","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2022.2054439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2054439","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cities engage in branding to present themselves as attractive locations. Some seek to gain recognition as world cities this way. The article identifies liveable environments with inclusive societies, events/mega-events, and iconic architecture as key components of such strategies. These thoughts are applied to Cape Town and Johannesburg. The former brands itself as an ‘opportunity city.’ It fits well into world city making through attraction as a place to live and work, and a related focus on the knowledge elite. Johannesburg, meanwhile, presents itself as the ‘gateway’ to Africa against the backdrop of infrastructures for communication, finance, and transport.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"357 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060634","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 : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2022.2029749
A. S. Yeboah, Murat Okumah, T. Baah-Ennumh, M. Poku-Boansi
ABSTRACT There is evidence to suggest that effective planning and tailoring resettlement schemes to the circumstances of displaced population are more likely to satisfy the target population. In spite of this, the topic is not well explored in the developing countries. To address this research gap, we employed mixed methods to analyse surveys and interviews. We found that although the resettled population were satisfied with new typology of housing, they were unhappy about their limited access to productive assets and the low compensatory packages given them. We encourage policymakers to make provisions for adequate productive assets in future resettlements.
{"title":"‘For the first time in my life, I am living in a home with separate lavatory and kitchen’: examining stakeholders’ satisfaction with the Bui hydroelectric power resettlement project","authors":"A. S. Yeboah, Murat Okumah, T. Baah-Ennumh, M. Poku-Boansi","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2022.2029749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2022.2029749","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is evidence to suggest that effective planning and tailoring resettlement schemes to the circumstances of displaced population are more likely to satisfy the target population. In spite of this, the topic is not well explored in the developing countries. To address this research gap, we employed mixed methods to analyse surveys and interviews. We found that although the resettled population were satisfied with new typology of housing, they were unhappy about their limited access to productive assets and the low compensatory packages given them. We encourage policymakers to make provisions for adequate productive assets in future resettlements.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"294 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45356769","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 : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2019069
J. A. Ogbodo, F. Okeke
ABSTRACT Tropical forest reserve system safeguards essential terrestrial ecosystems services such as atmospheric carbon sinks and biodiversity storehouses. The aim of this study was to quantify the spatial coverage of Southeastern forest reserves in Nigeria toward strengthening Nigeria’s capacity on monitoring, reporting, and verification mechanism of the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) Framework. Hence, three (3) open-source geospatial datasets were systematically analyzed. The result indicates that, about five (5) percent of the total landmass in Southeastern Nigeria is currently designated as forest reserves. The forty-seven (47) forests reserves identified in the study area account for a total of 1,335.42 km2 out of the entire 28,987 km2 landmass of the Southeast geopolitical zone. In conclusion, the current value of forestland under conservation within Southeastern Nigeria is 82% short of attaining the Food and Agriculture Organization’s prescribed 25% forest cover threshold by a margin of 5,911 km2. Therefore, for Nigeria to adequately achieve the FAO’s recommended target, every state government in the country should consistently maintain the exact 25% forest cover FAO’s threshold. As a next research line, assessment of aboveground biomass (AGB) within Nigeria’s Southeastern tropical forest reserves with open-source geospatial data, is hereby, recommended.
{"title":"Spatial analysis of southeastern forest reserves in Nigeria using open geospatial data","authors":"J. A. Ogbodo, F. Okeke","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2019069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2019069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tropical forest reserve system safeguards essential terrestrial ecosystems services such as atmospheric carbon sinks and biodiversity storehouses. The aim of this study was to quantify the spatial coverage of Southeastern forest reserves in Nigeria toward strengthening Nigeria’s capacity on monitoring, reporting, and verification mechanism of the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) Framework. Hence, three (3) open-source geospatial datasets were systematically analyzed. The result indicates that, about five (5) percent of the total landmass in Southeastern Nigeria is currently designated as forest reserves. The forty-seven (47) forests reserves identified in the study area account for a total of 1,335.42 km2 out of the entire 28,987 km2 landmass of the Southeast geopolitical zone. In conclusion, the current value of forestland under conservation within Southeastern Nigeria is 82% short of attaining the Food and Agriculture Organization’s prescribed 25% forest cover threshold by a margin of 5,911 km2. Therefore, for Nigeria to adequately achieve the FAO’s recommended target, every state government in the country should consistently maintain the exact 25% forest cover FAO’s threshold. As a next research line, assessment of aboveground biomass (AGB) within Nigeria’s Southeastern tropical forest reserves with open-source geospatial data, is hereby, recommended.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"232 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44424416","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 : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1997613
I. Moyo
ABSTRACT This paper explores the perception of indigenous communities towards the co-management framework and whether or not this empowered them to utilise their indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the management and governance of the Protected Area (PA) in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg. IKS is excluded from the political systems of PA governance but this can be remedied through participation of indigenous communities in the agenda-setting around environmental management programmes. Indigenous community members should be co-managers at every level of the political power hierarchy of the PA if entrenched asymmetrical power relations are to be dismantled and replaced by meaningful partnership that transcends tokenistic normativity.
{"title":"Beyond a tokenistic inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems in protected area governance and management in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg","authors":"I. Moyo","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1997613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997613","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the perception of indigenous communities towards the co-management framework and whether or not this empowered them to utilise their indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the management and governance of the Protected Area (PA) in Okhahlamba-Drakensberg. IKS is excluded from the political systems of PA governance but this can be remedied through participation of indigenous communities in the agenda-setting around environmental management programmes. Indigenous community members should be co-managers at every level of the political power hierarchy of the PA if entrenched asymmetrical power relations are to be dismantled and replaced by meaningful partnership that transcends tokenistic normativity.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"141 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44771410","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 : 2022-01-22DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2023892
T. Musasa, Mark Makomborero Matsa
ABSTRACT The research sought to examine the impact of resilience building interventions toward rural livelihoods in Mberengwa and Zvishavane Districts. In this research, a mixed method research design was adopted to enhance the quality, complementarity, and expansion of results. Data were gathered using questionnaires, interviews and field observations. Questionnaires were distributed to 200 household heads in Mberengwa and 120 households selected in Zvishavane Districts using convenience sampling technique. Key informants interviewed included Lutheran Development Services representative, Rural District Council representative, District Crop and Livestock Officer (DCLO). The acquired qualitative data were subjected to content analysis while quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS version 23.0. The study findings show that Villages Savings and Lending, water harvesting, community horticultural gardens, apiculture, climate smart agriculture were some of the initiatives contributing to resilience building. These resilience building interventions contributed toward the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 1; ending hunger, 2; zero hunger; and 13 climate action. The study recommends that the government, through the relevant ministry should ensure resilience building initiatives are included in their five-year plan, so that they have adequate and realistic implementation time frames.
{"title":"Impact of resilience building interventions in semiarid rural agro-communities: lessons from Mberengwa And Zvishavane Districts in South Eastern Zimbabwe","authors":"T. Musasa, Mark Makomborero Matsa","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2023892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2023892","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The research sought to examine the impact of resilience building interventions toward rural livelihoods in Mberengwa and Zvishavane Districts. In this research, a mixed method research design was adopted to enhance the quality, complementarity, and expansion of results. Data were gathered using questionnaires, interviews and field observations. Questionnaires were distributed to 200 household heads in Mberengwa and 120 households selected in Zvishavane Districts using convenience sampling technique. Key informants interviewed included Lutheran Development Services representative, Rural District Council representative, District Crop and Livestock Officer (DCLO). The acquired qualitative data were subjected to content analysis while quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS version 23.0. The study findings show that Villages Savings and Lending, water harvesting, community horticultural gardens, apiculture, climate smart agriculture were some of the initiatives contributing to resilience building. These resilience building interventions contributed toward the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 1; ending hunger, 2; zero hunger; and 13 climate action. The study recommends that the government, through the relevant ministry should ensure resilience building initiatives are included in their five-year plan, so that they have adequate and realistic implementation time frames.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"249 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47723301","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 : 2022-01-09DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2024443
O. Durowoju, T. Ologunorisa, A. Akinbobola
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of drought indices on cereal crops in the Kaduna River Basin (KRB). The study showed positive relationships between crop yields and drought indices except for temperature which revealed negative correlations. The study further revealed that rainfall mostly influence crop yields followed by soil moisture and VCI. Analysis on Standardized Precipitation Index showed (r=0.907; p < 0.01), (r = 0.862; p < 0.01) and (r = 0.722; p < 0.05) for millet, maize and soybean yields respectively. The study revealed 2005 and 2006 as the severe drought years while 2010 and 2011 were recorded as the wettest years.
{"title":"Impact of drought on cereal crop yields in the Savanna Region of Nigeria","authors":"O. Durowoju, T. Ologunorisa, A. Akinbobola","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2024443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2024443","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of drought indices on cereal crops in the Kaduna River Basin (KRB). The study showed positive relationships between crop yields and drought indices except for temperature which revealed negative correlations. The study further revealed that rainfall mostly influence crop yields followed by soil moisture and VCI. Analysis on Standardized Precipitation Index showed (r=0.907; p < 0.01), (r = 0.862; p < 0.01) and (r = 0.722; p < 0.05) for millet, maize and soybean yields respectively. The study revealed 2005 and 2006 as the severe drought years while 2010 and 2011 were recorded as the wettest years.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"273 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45579710","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 : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2018661
O. S. Oduniyi, T. Ojo, Y. S. Nyam
ABSTRACT Sustainable land management practices (SLMPs) are important for ensuring environmental protection, food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in a nation. The study employed a triple hurdle regression model to analyze the drivers influencing farmers’ awareness and adoption and level of adoption of SLMPs. The results show that farm input source, availability of farm inputs, extension frequency, water sources and marital status, are vital for increasing awareness. It is thus, recommended that actions and policies at public and private levels should be aimed at promoting and improving SLMPs.
{"title":"Awareness and adoption of sustainable land management practices among smallholder maize farmers in Mpumalanga province of South Africa","authors":"O. S. Oduniyi, T. Ojo, Y. S. Nyam","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2018661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2018661","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sustainable land management practices (SLMPs) are important for ensuring environmental protection, food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in a nation. The study employed a triple hurdle regression model to analyze the drivers influencing farmers’ awareness and adoption and level of adoption of SLMPs. The results show that farm input source, availability of farm inputs, extension frequency, water sources and marital status, are vital for increasing awareness. It is thus, recommended that actions and policies at public and private levels should be aimed at promoting and improving SLMPs.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"217 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49079963","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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