Pub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2007411
E. Bisung, Achore Meshack, Ebenezer Dassah, Vincent Z. Kuuire
ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that trust in government and public health experts is vital for acceptance of public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is increasingly clear that mistrust in public health recommendation affects efforts to slowdown the spread of COVID-19 in many countries. The objective of this study is to identify perceived drivers of mistrust in public health responses to COVID-19 in Ghana, using concept mapping with a range of local stakeholders (n = 21). The study was conducted between July and August 2020. Fifty-two items describing factors that influence mistrust in COVID-19 response were identified across eight themes. Out of eight clusters that emerged, participants rated weak health system, distrust in politicians and state institutions, and politicization of response measures as the most important and prevalent drivers of mistrust . The results show that the old narrative of cultural beliefs and illiteracy is not sufficient for understanding mistrust in public health programs during epidemics in SSA, at least in the case of COVID-19 in Ghana. This study demonstrates the need for global health practitioners to pay attention to structural forces and political relations in order to paint a fuller picture of mistrust during epidemics and pandemics.
{"title":"Public health response to COVID-19 pandemic and drivers of mistrust in Ghana","authors":"E. Bisung, Achore Meshack, Ebenezer Dassah, Vincent Z. Kuuire","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2007411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007411","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent studies suggest that trust in government and public health experts is vital for acceptance of public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is increasingly clear that mistrust in public health recommendation affects efforts to slowdown the spread of COVID-19 in many countries. The objective of this study is to identify perceived drivers of mistrust in public health responses to COVID-19 in Ghana, using concept mapping with a range of local stakeholders (n = 21). The study was conducted between July and August 2020. Fifty-two items describing factors that influence mistrust in COVID-19 response were identified across eight themes. Out of eight clusters that emerged, participants rated weak health system, distrust in politicians and state institutions, and politicization of response measures as the most important and prevalent drivers of mistrust . The results show that the old narrative of cultural beliefs and illiteracy is not sufficient for understanding mistrust in public health programs during epidemics in SSA, at least in the case of COVID-19 in Ghana. This study demonstrates the need for global health practitioners to pay attention to structural forces and political relations in order to paint a fuller picture of mistrust during epidemics and pandemics.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"205 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44175294","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 : 2021-12-16DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2014340
Sören Scholvin
{"title":"Development state of Africa in practice: looking east with focus on South Korea","authors":"Sören Scholvin","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2014340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2014340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45789752","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 : 2021-11-29DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2007143
Stanley Chasia, M. Herrnegger, B. Juma, J. Kimuyu, L. Sitoki, L. Olang
ABSTRACT This study evaluated historical land-cover states in order to identify potential land-use transition regimes leading to land degradation. Landsat satellite datasets were used to characterize land-cover states for 1986–2017 period. The multinomial probability distribution was used to establish sample size for training and accuracy assessment. Using a hybrid image classification approach, individual satellite images were initially clustered using the ISODATA technique, and spectral classes later transformed posteriori into respective thematic classes. Maximum Likelihood Function was subsequently used to assign pixels into classes with highest probability. Approximately 12% of mixed forest declined, while cropland increased by 30% between 1995–2008.
{"title":"Analysis of land-cover changes in the Transboundary Sio-Malaba-Malakisi River Basin of East Africa: Towards identifying potential land-use transition regimes","authors":"Stanley Chasia, M. Herrnegger, B. Juma, J. Kimuyu, L. Sitoki, L. Olang","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2007143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007143","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study evaluated historical land-cover states in order to identify potential land-use transition regimes leading to land degradation. Landsat satellite datasets were used to characterize land-cover states for 1986–2017 period. The multinomial probability distribution was used to establish sample size for training and accuracy assessment. Using a hybrid image classification approach, individual satellite images were initially clustered using the ISODATA technique, and spectral classes later transformed posteriori into respective thematic classes. Maximum Likelihood Function was subsequently used to assign pixels into classes with highest probability. Approximately 12% of mixed forest declined, while cropland increased by 30% between 1995–2008.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"170 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47675329","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 : 2021-11-26DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2007410
M. Ogbe, J. K. Rød, Thomas H. Halvorsen
ABSTRACT Scholars of natural resource governance argue that national and local governments must engage ordinary community members. When ordinary community members access information about the utilization of natural resource revenue and get an opportunity to provide feedback, the revenue management improves. In this article, the authors engaged Ghanaians through a spatial crowdsourcing platform for their opinion about petroleum management revenue in Ghana. The participants accessed the platform via their mobile phones and completed a survey on their opinions about petroleum revenue management, the Free Senior High School program, and their priority areas for petroleum revenue funding in Ghana. The results suggest that ordinary community members, and particularly women, seemed less informed about the management of petroleum revenue in Ghana. Furthermore, Ghanaians’ opinions regarding their prioritized projects for petroleum revenue funding vary geographically. The authors conclude that decision-makers can use spatial crowdsourcing to engage ordinary community members in natural resource revenue management.
{"title":"Opinions of Ghanaians on the management of petroleum revenue in Ghana","authors":"M. Ogbe, J. K. Rød, Thomas H. Halvorsen","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2007410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2007410","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Scholars of natural resource governance argue that national and local governments must engage ordinary community members. When ordinary community members access information about the utilization of natural resource revenue and get an opportunity to provide feedback, the revenue management improves. In this article, the authors engaged Ghanaians through a spatial crowdsourcing platform for their opinion about petroleum management revenue in Ghana. The participants accessed the platform via their mobile phones and completed a survey on their opinions about petroleum revenue management, the Free Senior High School program, and their priority areas for petroleum revenue funding in Ghana. The results suggest that ordinary community members, and particularly women, seemed less informed about the management of petroleum revenue in Ghana. Furthermore, Ghanaians’ opinions regarding their prioritized projects for petroleum revenue funding vary geographically. The authors conclude that decision-makers can use spatial crowdsourcing to engage ordinary community members in natural resource revenue management.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"187 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42532336","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 : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.2003832
R. Obateru, O. Ogunkoya, D. D. Ajayi
ABSTRACT This study aims at assessing runoff characteristics and water availability between 1955 and 2019 in the Nigerian sub-catchment of River Niger upstream of Baro, central Nigeria, and the implication for food security in the nation. The discharge regime of the sub-catchment is characterized by single peak, which occurs in September. The sub-catchment’s runoff coefficient ranged between 23% and 32% for the period 1955−1970; 9% and 22% for 1971–1990; 45% and 55% for 1994–1999; and 15–33% for 2000–2019. The study observed a decline in river flow and water availability due to climate variability. This indicates impending problems of water crises and food insecurity.
{"title":"Water availability in a Nigerian sub-catchment of River Niger and its implications for food security","authors":"R. Obateru, O. Ogunkoya, D. D. Ajayi","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.2003832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.2003832","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims at assessing runoff characteristics and water availability between 1955 and 2019 in the Nigerian sub-catchment of River Niger upstream of Baro, central Nigeria, and the implication for food security in the nation. The discharge regime of the sub-catchment is characterized by single peak, which occurs in September. The sub-catchment’s runoff coefficient ranged between 23% and 32% for the period 1955−1970; 9% and 22% for 1971–1990; 45% and 55% for 1994–1999; and 15–33% for 2000–2019. The study observed a decline in river flow and water availability due to climate variability. This indicates impending problems of water crises and food insecurity.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"157 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42259401","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 : 2021-11-12DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1997610
Alemayehu Abera Shumi, Teshome Yirgu Bayou, Abera Uncha Utallo
ABSTRACT This study investigates the livelihood perspectives of resettlers, challenges and prospects of intra-regional resettlement scheme in Chewaka district of Ethiopia. Through multistage sampling procedure, 384 households were selected from sample kebeles for household survey. Descriptive and inferential statistics along with Household Food Balance Model have been employed to analyze data. The results revealed that resettlement scheme had brought substantial changes on livelihood of the resettled communities. It is successful in rescuing human life, improving livelihood assets and ensuring food security for most of the settlers. The study suggests urgent attention on improving infrastructures and environment conservations for betterment of livelihoods. Abbreviations: BZARDO: Buno Bedelle Zone Agriculture and Rural Development Office; DAs: Development Agents; TM: Thematic Mapper: ETM+: Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus; NMSA: National Meteorological Service Agency; SNNPR: Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region
{"title":"Intraregional resettlement scheme and livelihood perspectives in Southwestern Ethiopia: challenges and prospects","authors":"Alemayehu Abera Shumi, Teshome Yirgu Bayou, Abera Uncha Utallo","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1997610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997610","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the livelihood perspectives of resettlers, challenges and prospects of intra-regional resettlement scheme in Chewaka district of Ethiopia. Through multistage sampling procedure, 384 households were selected from sample kebeles for household survey. Descriptive and inferential statistics along with Household Food Balance Model have been employed to analyze data. The results revealed that resettlement scheme had brought substantial changes on livelihood of the resettled communities. It is successful in rescuing human life, improving livelihood assets and ensuring food security for most of the settlers. The study suggests urgent attention on improving infrastructures and environment conservations for betterment of livelihoods. Abbreviations: BZARDO: Buno Bedelle Zone Agriculture and Rural Development Office; DAs: Development Agents; TM: Thematic Mapper: ETM+: Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus; NMSA: National Meteorological Service Agency; SNNPR: Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"29 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48489640","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 : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1997611
Sibilo Gashure, Desalegn Wana
ABSTRACT Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of climate variability and trends is essential to designing context-specific adaptation and mitigation interventions for climate change impacts. To this end, this paper examines the 1983–2016 rainfall and temperature variability and trends using merged satellite-gauge station data in the UNESCO designated Cultural Landscapes of Konso, Ethiopia. We have employed a non-parametric Mann-Kendall test to analyze rainfall and temperature trends, whereas the coefficient of variation (CV) has been used for variability analysis. The distribution and severity of meteorological droughts were mapped using the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). Our findings revealed an increase in annual and summer (Kiremt) season rainfall by 3.16 mm and 0.42 mm per year, respectively. However, rainfall in the spring (Belg) season decreased by 1.12 mm per year. Our findings also showed a substantial spatiotemporal variability in drought events due to variations in rainfall and topography. Consequently, the observed increase in frequency and the spatial extent of drought pose potential threats to rainfed farming, which gradually exposes smallholders to food insecurity and socioeconomic vulnerability. Therefore, agroecological-based local adaptation and mitigation interventions to climate variability are needed to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers and ensure the continuity of the Konso cultural landscapes.
了解气候变率的时空格局和趋势对于设计针对气候变化影响的适应和减缓干预措施至关重要。为此，本文使用联合国教科文组织指定的埃塞俄比亚孔索文化景观的合并卫星测量站数据，研究了1983-2016年的降雨量和温度变化和趋势。我们采用非参数Mann-Kendall检验来分析降雨和温度趋势，而变异系数(CV)则用于变异性分析。利用标准化降水指数(SPI)绘制了气象干旱的分布和严重程度图。研究结果显示，年降雨量和夏季降雨量分别增加了3.16 mm和0.42 mm /年。然而，春季(比利时)的降雨量每年减少1.12毫米。我们的研究结果还表明，由于降雨和地形的变化，干旱事件具有实质性的时空变异性。因此，观测到的干旱频率和空间范围的增加对雨养农业构成了潜在威胁，这逐渐使小农面临粮食不安全和社会经济脆弱性。因此，需要以农业生态为基础的地方适应和缓解气候变化的干预措施，以增强小农的复原力，并确保孔索文化景观的连续性。
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1996250
O. Adeola, O. Adeyemi, Victor Onyemaenu
ABSTRACT Frequency analysis of extreme events is used to evaluate the probable maximum flood from runoff records using probability distribution functions. This study aims to understand rainfall-runoff relationships in four conterminous basins in Southwestern Nigeria using the runs test, Pearson correlation, and wavelet coherence. The study revealed that the highest Extreme Annual Rainfall in the series is expected to occur once every 31 years with 0.03 probability. Wavelet coherence shows a strong significant association with phases between Yewa – Ikeja and Yewa – Abeokuta. The observed extreme discharge values constitute the basis for establishing exceedance probabilities for the stations and their recurrence intervals.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1991811
G. Dumedah, Joshua Arthur, Jesse Senyo Kokroko, S. T. Ampofo, Precious Adwoa Okyere, Eric Tweneboah Kodua
ABSTRACT Characterizing accessibility to healthcare is complex, requiring the consideration of geography, socioeconomic and cultural factors. The Three-Step Floating Catchment Area (3SFCA) was used to account for population demand, the capacity of health facilities, and the geographic separations between locations of demand and supply in the Greater Kumasi, Ghana. The results show that accessibility to healthcare is low, about 2.34 physicians per 10,000 persons. The facilities have favorable geography: high number, detailed coverage, and proximity, but plagued with low numbers of physicians and high demand. The study synthesized analytical results with questionnaire survey to better characterize accessibility to healthcare by geography.
{"title":"Characterizing the geography of potential healthcare accessibility in informal settlements in the Greater Kumasi area of Ghana","authors":"G. Dumedah, Joshua Arthur, Jesse Senyo Kokroko, S. T. Ampofo, Precious Adwoa Okyere, Eric Tweneboah Kodua","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1991811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1991811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Characterizing accessibility to healthcare is complex, requiring the consideration of geography, socioeconomic and cultural factors. The Three-Step Floating Catchment Area (3SFCA) was used to account for population demand, the capacity of health facilities, and the geographic separations between locations of demand and supply in the Greater Kumasi, Ghana. The results show that accessibility to healthcare is low, about 2.34 physicians per 10,000 persons. The facilities have favorable geography: high number, detailed coverage, and proximity, but plagued with low numbers of physicians and high demand. The study synthesized analytical results with questionnaire survey to better characterize accessibility to healthcare by geography.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"46 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43468882","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 : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1997612
Michelle Afrifah, Joseph Mensah
ABSTRACT While a bourgeoning literature exists on how African Americans are using tourism to connect with Africa, only a handful of studies have examined the nature of African American tourists’ spending on the continent. This study identifies popular Ghanaian handicrafts that are produced for African American tourists; examines the spending patterns of these tourists; and analyses how handicraft traders use the incomes derived from their craft sales. We found that while African Americans constitute the bulk of craft purchasers in Ghana, their numbers have dwindled lately, so are their expenditures on crafts and other souvenirs.
{"title":"Diaspora tourism and homeland development: exploring the impacts of African American tourists on the livelihoods of local traders in Southern Ghana","authors":"Michelle Afrifah, Joseph Mensah","doi":"10.1080/19376812.2021.1997612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2021.1997612","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While a bourgeoning literature exists on how African Americans are using tourism to connect with Africa, only a handful of studies have examined the nature of African American tourists’ spending on the continent. This study identifies popular Ghanaian handicrafts that are produced for African American tourists; examines the spending patterns of these tourists; and analyses how handicraft traders use the incomes derived from their craft sales. We found that while African Americans constitute the bulk of craft purchasers in Ghana, their numbers have dwindled lately, so are their expenditures on crafts and other souvenirs.","PeriodicalId":44819,"journal":{"name":"African Geographical Review","volume":"42 1","pages":"125 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48042639","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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