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Title: | Empowering Women through Tree Planting? Gender and Global Environmentalism in Northern Ghana |
Author: | Amanor, Kojo Sebastian |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Research Review (ISSN 0855-4412) |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 63-73 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Ghana West Africa |
Subjects: | popular participation environmental policy women environment forestry agriculture Development and Technology Cultural Roles Environment, Ecology environmental management empowerment trees Afforestation |
Abstract: | The author looks at tree planting in the Chiana district in the Kasena-Nankani area in the Upper East Region of Ghana. He notes that a major rhetorical emphasis of post-Rio global environmental programmes has been on promoting community participation, especially of women, and respect for indigenous knowledge and traditional institutions, with an emphasis on building local capacity to manage programmes. By contrast, he found that in practice environmental programmes may rather erode local capacities to manage the environment by imposing programmes that do not make sense in local contexts, eroding local knowledge. Local community groups become clients of environmental coalitions and rely on their inputs. There is only a minor trickle down of resources to the communities and community groups. The author stresses the need to recognize environments as anthropogenic and to understand the linkages between humans and their environments, making natural assets, not foreign technologies, the basis for building new strategies on how to care for the environment, and integrating the production and livelihood needs of the local producers. Bibliogr., note. [ASC Leiden abstract] |