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Enhancing food security and poverty reduction in Ghana through non-timber forest products farming - Case study of Sefwi Wiawso District (Paperback)
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Enhancing food security and poverty reduction in Ghana through non-timber forest products farming - Case study of Sefwi Wiawso District (Paperback)
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Project Report from the year 2008 in the subject Forestry /
Forestry Economics, grade: -, - (Human Ecology Department, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel ), course: Human Ecology, 38 entries in the
bibliography, language: English, abstract: Food insecurity and
poverty are the greatest global challenges facing the world today.
Their redress is an indispensable requirement for sustainable
development in developing countries, particularly in Africa.
Poverty continues to be pervasive, intractable and inexcusable in
the developing world particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. Extreme
poverty ravages the lives of one in every four in the developing
world (i.e. 1.2 billion people). The farming of non-timber forest
products (NTFPs) is being promoted as a potential solution to the
current high rates of malnutrition and poor health of the rural
population, the degradation of tropical forests and the spread and
intensification of poverty. However, the role of NTFPs in rural
development in Ghana remains largely undervalued and understudied.
This paper examines the contribution of NTFPs farming in enhancing
poverty reduction, food security, sustainable forest management,
and livelihoods improvement in the Sefwi Wiawso District (SWD) of
the Western Region of Ghana. An exhaustive literature review and
analysis of field data collected through administration of
questionnaires, interviews and stakeholder consultations indicate
that NTFPs are an important tool for addressing poverty amongst
marginalised, forest-dependant communities in Ghana. 86% of farmers
in SWD depend on NTFPs for income, food and medicine. The results
of the study support the call on decision makers and development
actors to put NTFPs management on national, regional and district
development agendas.
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