This book lends valuable insight into the gendered dimensions of the impact of climate change on subsistence farming in Cameroon, so seriously unattended. Building on the voices and experiences of often marginalized local peoples in the Cameroon grassland, the book delivers an informative exploration of the ways in which women's crucial engagement with subsistence agriculture is currently being undermined by incidences of climate change. Challenges such as erratic seasonal patterns;shifting planting seasons;increase in weed production;poorer crop yields;loss of income and resulting emotional and financial stresses mean that women-the indispensible providers of food, home care and agricultural production, are forced to stretch further in order to accommodate extra burdens related to adaptation and mitigation.However, these realities are not confined to the rural women of Cameroon.They echo the constant struggle of rural women across Africa and the larger south, as they attempt to maintain a precariously balanced equilibrium on a scale that seems permanently tipped against them. Gender sensitive policies are thus urgently needed to address these plethoric and often confounding challe

This book attends to the processes of water policy formulation and implementation in Ireland and Ghana, offering important insights into the ways in which public administrations operate in a developed and a developing country setting. Tenets of sustainability require nations to develop capacities to enable them strike a balance between harnessing environmental resources to improve the quality of life of their citizens; and adopting measures to guarantee environmental protection. Following the 'sustainability path', this book seeks to illuminate understanding of the complexities involved in policy formulation and implementation of water policy in Ireland and Ghana. It concludes that policy formulation has not facilitated implementation of water policy in both countries, largely because endeavours in this light have been externally driven by such organisations as the European Union, the World Bank the and International Monetary Fund. As a way forward, the book suggests the effective implementation of water policy through robust coordination of economic, political and administrative governance mechanisms in line with the national contexts and local realities of the countries studied.