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- Gold mining and corporate social responsibility in the Wassa West district, Ghana
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Despite a boom in gold mining in Ghana's Wassa West district (WWD), unemployment and poverty have deepened, partly due to loss of farmland to surface mining but more so because of the limited opportunities for wage employment in the district's 'revived' ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-05-04 15:53
- Location, vocation, and price shocks: cotton, rice, and sorghum-millet farmers in Mali
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This article contrasts the impacts of the global food-price crisis in 2007–08 on three types of farmer in Mali. In the Niger delta, where the government undertook an ‘emergency’ initiative, farmers organised to market their rice collec ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-15 16:47
- Playing broken telephone: assessing faith-inspired health care provision in Africa
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In the literature on the religious contribution to health and development, it is commonly stated that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide from 30 to 70 per cent of all health care provision in Africa. This article tracks the sources of such state ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2012-07-12 13:53
- The process of a participatory tree domestication project in Meru, Kenya
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Although participatory research methodologies have been widely advocated, most projects do not involve the radical reversal of approach implied. Though defined in theory, participatory research is hard to implement and more precise description is theref ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:42
- How can Kenyans abroad contribute to national development?
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Kenya is not yet a major emigration country, but emigration of Kenyan professionals and technicians is increasing in importance. Kenyans and those with links to Kenya living abroad are a potentially important resource for national development. It is thus ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:40
- Doing primary research in a developing economy
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In 1992 and 1993 fieldwork was done in the Eastern Region of Ghana to examine why hybrid cocoa, introduced by cocoa institutions, was adopted by some farmers and not others. This report discusses the problems encountered when collecting data, including th ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:39
- Participatory project evaluation: letting local people have their say
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The UNEP's Dryland Ecosystems and Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre (DEDC/PAC) is coordinating a programme through the Environmental Liaison Centre International (ELCI) to devise methods for the participatory evaluation and monitoring of p ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:38
- Empowerment for development: taking participatory appraisal further in rural South Africa
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This paper examines the potential for participatory rural appraisal techniques to contribute positively to community development and empowerment in a deprived rural community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. A series of participatory workshop ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:37
- Assessing nutritional status and functional ability of older adults in developing countries
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The author summarises the results of research into the health of older adults in Malawi, India, and Tanzania, which found high levels of malnutrition and anaemia among them, as well as, and linked to, poor functional ability. The data suggests the need fo ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:48
- Community sustainable-development indicators: a useful participatory technique or another dead end?
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This article undertakes a critical re-evaluation of a DFID-funded project in South Africa which ran between 1998 and 2001. The evaluation sought to test whether the development of community-led indicators would improve governance. Since the project ended, ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-10-28 18:36
