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Local institutions and natural resource management in the South Tongu District of Ghana: a case study

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  • John E. Koku

    (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

  • Jan-Erik Gustafsson

    (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

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This paper draws on secondary and primary data derived from a field survey undertaken in Torsukpo and Agbogbla communities in the South Tongu District of Ghana to discuss possibilities of enhancing the roles of local institutions in resource management. Key issues addressed in the paper include (i) limitations which share cropping (abunu-abusa) as a local social institutional arrangement places on tenant farmers and (ii) the role of the District Assembly with specific reference to policy provisions placed at its disposal that could be used to formulate co-operative strategies that may help mobilize and empower the local people for effective natural resources management. To complement efforts in this direction, the paper also highlights some possible ways in which NGOs could play more effective roles in facilitating development process in the district. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. and ERP Environment

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  • John E. Koku & Jan-Erik Gustafsson, 2003. "Local institutions and natural resource management in the South Tongu District of Ghana: a case study," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 11(1), pages 17-35.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:11:y:2003:i:1:p:17-35
    DOI: 10.1002/sd.201
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    1. Gideon Baffoe & Hirotaka Matsuda, 2018. "An Empirical Assessment of Households Livelihood Vulnerability: The Case of Rural Ghana," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 140(3), pages 1225-1257, December.
    2. Service Opare, 2017. "Practising the past in the present: using Ghanaian indigenous methods for water quality determination in the contemporary era," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 19(6), pages 2217-2236, December.
    3. Michael Kossivi Tamekloe & Kenichi Matsui, 2024. "Smallholder Rice And Vegetable Farmers’ Constraints To Adopt Small-Scale Irrigation In South Tongu District, Ghana," International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research, Malwa International Journals Publication, vol. 10(04), August.
    4. Osei-Tutu, Paul, 2017. "Taboos as informal institutions of local resource management in Ghana: Why they are complied with or not," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(P1), pages 114-123.

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