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Book Social Responsibility Agreements in Ghana s Forestry Sector

Download or read book Social Responsibility Agreements in Ghana s Forestry Sector written by Dominic M. Ayine and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiefs  Representation and Non citizenship in Forestry

Download or read book Chiefs Representation and Non citizenship in Forestry written by Frank K. Agyei and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reconciling Policy Reforms with Forest Legislation

Download or read book Reconciling Policy Reforms with Forest Legislation written by Kyeretwie Opoku and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa

Download or read book Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa written by Dilys Roe and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. This title discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives.

Book Forests for People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne M Larson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-09-10
  • ISBN : 1136543767
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Forests for People written by Anne M Larson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially increased the share of the world's forests under community administration. Based on research in over 30 communities in selected countries in Asia (India, Nepal, Philippines, Laos, Indonesia), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua), it examines the process and outcomes of granting new rights, assessing a variety of governance issues in implementation, access to forest products and markets and outcomes for people and forests . Forest tenure reforms have been highly varied, ranging from the titling of indigenous territories to the granting of small land areas for forest regeneration or the right to a share in timber revenues. While in many cases these rights have been significant, new statutory rights do not automatically result in rights in practice, and a variety of institutional weaknesses and policy distortions have limited the impacts of change. Through the comparison of selected cases, the chapters explore the nature of forest reform, the extent and meaning of rights transferred or recognized, and the role of authority and citizens' networks in forest governance. They also assess opportunities and obstacles associated with government regulations and markets for forest products and the effects across the cases on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. Published with CIFOR

Book Africa  Tropical Timber  Turfs  and Trade

Download or read book Africa Tropical Timber Turfs and Trade written by J. Henry Owusu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade by various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liberal era. In relation to this, Owusu documents the structural and organizational changes that have occurred in the region resulting from national and international development policies, such as modernization and neo-liberal structural adjustment on industrialization and development, and assesses the roles played by powerful international organizations such as The World Bank as agents of economic change. The discussion is couched in the critical but often unrecognized or neglected role the discipline of geography and its associated perspectives play in relation to examining and understanding the unequal relationship between the advanced and developing economies, and how that relationship affects development and trade behavior of developing economies. The core argument made regarding this relationship is tied to the structuralist perspective that Africa’s persistent underdevelopment problem is rooted in the very structure of its political economy. Based on the discussion, Owusu identifies and distills lessons from Ghana’s experience for Development policy and practice in Africa and comparable Developing countries in the 21st Century.

Book Ghana

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Monetary Fund
  • Publisher : International Monetary Fund
  • Release : 2009-08-03
  • ISBN : 1451815026
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Ghana written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents key findings of the assessment of progress made in the implementation of policies outlined in the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II, 2006–2009) for Ghana. The paper provides an assessment on programs such as the Multi Donor Budget Support, the linkage between the 2006 Annual Budget and the GPRS II, performance toward the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, and the African Peer Review Mechanism. The paper also discusses macroeconomic performance and economic governance in Ghana.

Book Policy Framework for Investment A Review of Good Practices

Download or read book Policy Framework for Investment A Review of Good Practices written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Review of Good Practices is published as a companion volume to the OECD Policy Framework for Investment and provides analytical background material on each of the ten chapters of the Framework.

Book Alternatives to Land Acquisitions

Download or read book Alternatives to Land Acquisitions written by Lorenzo Cotula and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in private-sector investment in agriculture. Some have welcomed this trend as a bearer of new livelihood opportunities in lower and middle-income countries. Others have raised concerns about the possible social impacts, including loss of local rights to land, water and other natural resources; threats to local food security; and, more generally, the risk that large-scale investments may marginalise family farmers. The recent debates about 201Cland grabbing201D - whereby investors acquire large areas of land in lower- and middle-income countries - illustrate these trends and positions. There is great demand for insights on how to structure agricultural investments in ways that leave land and share value with local farmers and communities. And in many parts of the world, there is growing experience with models for structuring agricultural investments other than large-scale land acquisitions

Book Investment Contracts and Sustainable Development

Download or read book Investment Contracts and Sustainable Development written by Lorenzo Cotula and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cross sectoral Policy Developments in Forestry

Download or read book Cross sectoral Policy Developments in Forestry written by Yves C. Dubé and published by CABI. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forestry practices are closely linked to decisions that address measures on climate change, biodiversity and the institutional framework for sustainable development. This book documents the progress made in creating the political, economic and social conditions that are necessary for a sustainable and multifunctional use of forest resources.

Book The External Environmental Policy of the European Union

Download or read book The External Environmental Policy of the European Union written by Elisa Morgera and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays comprehensively and systematically analyzes the various instruments and innovative approaches through which the EU is forging its external environmental policy, the legal implications of its multifaceted practice and interactions with international environmental law. It explains the legal and institutional framework for EU external action on environmental protection and sustainable development, identifying the changes introduced, and challenges posed, by the Lisbon Treaty. It explores key tools and trends in defining and implementing EU external policy across a broad range of environmental issues, as well as linkages with trade and human rights. It also assesses the reciprocal influences between the development and implementation of EU environmental law and of international environmental law.

Book Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management

Download or read book Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management written by Mirjam A. F. Ros-Tonen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles experiences acquired with sustainable forest and tree resource management partnerships in various Latin American countries. It addresses the question of which conditions are necessary for partnerships to stimulate sustainable, socially just and pro-poor governance of forest resources.

Book Climate Smart Landscapes  Multifunctionality in Practice

Download or read book Climate Smart Landscapes Multifunctionality in Practice written by Peter A. Minang and published by ASB Partnership for The Tropical Forest margins. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice is about a 'landscape approach' to achieving multiple climate, social, development and environmental objectives. It builds on climate-smart landscapes as a growing platform and pathway towards achieving multi functionality. This book in 27 chapters draws strongly from practices, methods, examples and considerations for applying landscape approaches to achieve multifunctional outcomes and in particular, address the complex challenge of climate change. http://asb.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/count/click.php?id=2

Book Chiefs  Representation and Non citizenship in Forestry   Lessons from the Social Responsibility Agreement in Ghana   Frank K  Agyei

Download or read book Chiefs Representation and Non citizenship in Forestry Lessons from the Social Responsibility Agreement in Ghana Frank K Agyei written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the bid is required by law to satisfy the requirement of the SRA by undertaking to spend five per cent of the value of the stumpage fee to provide social amenities to communities and inhabitants of the timber utilization areas (L. [...] In terms of the guidelines, the negotiating team should include a) representatives of the community - the stool land chief, village chief, elder, Community Forest Committee members, the unit committee and Assembly Member of the community, and b) the applicant for the Timber Utilization Contract - the Managing Director and/or the Bush Manager. [...] The role of the District forest officials was limited to facilitating the process by helping the representatives and the contractors reach consensus on the list of items and documenting the process. [...] At Achichire, the chief, his council of elders and the Chairman of the Unit Committee negotiated the interest of the people whilst at Anakum, the chief, his council of elders, the assemblyman and members of the Unit Committee represented the people. [...] With the exception of members of the council of elders and the elected structure inquiring about the SRA processes, none of the 'ordinary' community members made an attempt to influence the process or the outcome of the negotiated agreement.