Poverty Dimensions of Public Governance and Forest Management ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of Acronyms 1
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
2. BACKGROUND 3
3. PROJECT PROPOSAL 6
4. OUTPUTS 7
4.1 Output 1 8
4.1.1 Research study sites 8
4.1.2 The context of environmental decision-making in the Brong Ahafo 12
4.1.3 Agricultural policy and its effects on the Brong Ahafo Region 15
4.1.4 The small farmer in policy discourse 17
4.1.5 Fallowing and permanent cultivation 17
4.1.6 Population and land tenure 18
4.1.7 Population and land tenure 20
4.1.8 Main circuits for land acquisition 21
4.1.9 Migrants and chiefs 23
4.1.10 Natural resource tenure 25
4.1.11 Supplementary livelihoods 25
4.1.12 Cropping systems 27
4.1.13 Agricultural intensification 31
4.1.14 Farming strategies 31
4.1.15 Adaptive strategies of farmers 33
4.1.16 Fallow tree resources and agriculture 34
4.1.17 Farmer adaptation and innovation 39
4.1.18 Agricultural research 40
4.1.19 Poverty and agricultural development 41
4.1.20 Managing the environment under decentralisation 46
4.1.21 Structures of decentralised environmental policy 46
4.1.22 An interim assessment of environmental decision-making 49
4.2 Output 2 51
4.2.1 The way forward 51
4.2.2 Taking account of complexity 52
4.2.3 Engaging with decentralisation 52
4.2.4 Other interventions 53
4.2.5 Entry points for research 57
4.2.6 The role of information 58
4.2.7 The proposed project 59
4.3 Output 3 63
4.3 Comparison between planned and actual outputs 65
5 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 66
5.1 Research methodology 66
5.1.1 Choice of study areas 68
5.1.2 Study sites 69
5.1.3 Charcoal as a case study of multiple land use conflicts 69
5.1.4 Assembly members survey 70
5.1.5 Land cover change sub-project 70
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