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Local Knowledge and Livelihood Sustainability under Environmental Change in Northern Ghana
(2010-11-09)
One of the most daunting challenges of development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and northern Ghana in particular, is how to secure livelihoods for rural populations under environmental change. This dissertation explores how rural ...
“Marketing and Market Queens”: A case of tomato farmers in the Upper East Region of Ghana
(2010-11-17)
The tomato sector in Ghana has always been viewed as a potential sector for employment and income generation. In the Upper East Region, its significance was back in the 1960s when the government supported the sector with ...
Actors, Alliances and Power in Negotiations: Unequal Distribution of Mining Benefits in Tarkwa's Gold Mining Area of Western Ghana
(2010-04-27)
The gold mining sub-sector is an important segment of the Ghanaian economy and continues to play a significant role in the country’s socio-economic development (Akaabza, 2008:1). At the moment, Ghana is Africa’s second ...
Institutional Pathways to Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana
(2017-07-20)
This dissertation provides the first cross-sectoral analysis of how adaptation policy in Ghana is put into practice, from the translation and mainstreaming of international adaptation discourses to their concrete application ...
The Challenge of Governing Natural Resources: A Social Network Analysis of Actors’ Collaboration in Ghana’s Petroleum Sector
(2017-07-20)
The PhD thesis investigates the extent of collaboration among actors in Ghana’s petroleum sector. Previous research has either focused on the socio-economic changes enforced upon local communities in close proximity to the ......