There are 313 projects that match your search.
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2009
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20,600.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/052 |
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Project Goal:
To mitigate the effects of climate change in the Adaklu-Traditional Area through the promotion of watershed management; sustainable land management; effective soil fertility management, afforestation and wildfire control so as to ( ... )
the emission of carbon dioxide whilst improving the livelihood of communities.
Project objectives:
• To develop local community capacity in wildfire management, green farming systems and use of efficient renewable energy technologies in six communities.
• Restore the degraded Tordzie river watershed
• To encourage the adoption and practice of appropriate agro-forestry and sustainable
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2009
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26,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2009/034 |
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The project will be implemented in Vea, Gowrie and Yorogo rural communities in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region. Vea, Gowrie and Yorogo are three rural farming communities in a continuum with a total population of 6,200 people in the ( ... )
ct. The communities have a severely degraded land which is prone to increasing soil erosion as a result of deforestation, inappropriate farming practices, and bush burning. Soils have become increasingly poor over the past years and this has reduced crop yield, resulting in seasonal food shortages in the community. Striga weed infestation was common in bush fields.
The relationship between
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2009
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20,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/048 |
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Problem Definition
Mounting evidence of damage to human health, poverty and the environment have made government and development partners focused attention at international community to eliminate a category of substances referred to as persistent ( ... )
pollutants (POPs) which is being used by farmers in crop production.
POPs are industrial chemicals (pesticides) derived from unwanted by-product of industrial processes. They have the ability to resist degradation in water, food crops, soil and living organism including man.
Agro-chemicals/Pesticide uses have assumed an increasingly significant role in the production of food and prevention
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2009
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21,400.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/050 |
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT AREA
Okushiebiade, Yaoman and Akramaman are purely rural communities in Ga West Municipality. Their main occupation is farming. Women act as heads of families due to the fact that they are single ( ... )
s and they work tirelessly to maintain their families but they continue to be poor with little or no education. The area is undeveloped and hard to reach. Although the communities are not far from Accra, they lack most of the basic amenities such as water, health posts, markets, schools, light and roads.
DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM
The project area has undergone serious land degradation
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2009
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22,700.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/047 |
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Problem Statement:
The Nkonya Traditional Area has a unique mountain ecosystem which provides home to most rare and endangered species in the country including keystones species like olive colobus, lowe and spoted nosed monkeys, Africa civet ( ... )
tictis civetta), Odum and Celtis. Unfortunately unsustainable practices such as hunting, bush burning, indiscriminate felling of trees for charcoal production and fuel wood, illegal chain saw operations for timber production has rendered the area almost a desert. All the mountain tops have been removed causing serious erosion on the slopes of the mountain. There seems to be no control on the
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2009
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21,400.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y3/CORE/2009/051 |
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3. PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND INTENDED RESULTS
2.1.1 Background and Problem Statement
Opei-Kuma and Loye communities are located within the Kasoa Area of the Awutu District. They do not get much income as a result of the methods used in farming; ( ... )
re mainly peasant farmers, who have one farming season in a year, thereby pushing most of the youth to the cities and urban centers and even migrate to nearby countries during lean seasons in search of greener pastures where there are no jobs.
Although the communities are not far from Kasoa, they are purely rural and farming communities, they have lost most of their trees to domestic use,
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2008
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25,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/006 |
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BACKGROUND CONDITIONS OF THE PROJECT AREAS
The project will be implemented in ten rural communities in the coastal savannah zone in Gomoa East District of the Central Region and four rural communities in Awutu District of the Central Region ( ... )
ase, Obra Kyere). These districts constitute part of the Savannah agro-ecological zones with mono modal rainfall pattern. Rainfall amount varies from 645 mm to 1,250 mm per annum with a mean of 1,250 mm. A long dry period of more than 5 months follows with little agricultural activity and limited income during the period.
The areas consist of a short drought and fire resistant deciduous
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
International Waters
Land Degradation
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2008
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21,800.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/016 |
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Land degradation manifests itself by soil erosion, water scarcity, reduced agricultural productivity and decreased nutritional value of food crops has been identified as the main problems of Mantari, Kuri, Maase, Dabo, Puni and Guo of the Black ( ... )
Basin. Land degradation and drought are causing severe hardship for many people who directly depend upon the natural resources for survival. Women and children, in particular, bear the greatest burden in times of drought. Women are responsible for hauling water and firewood for the household, and desertification can add hours to labour on an already fully charged workday.
According to the
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
International Waters
Land Degradation
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2008
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18,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE-GM/2008/019 |
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During the animation process it came to the fore that; the local inhabitants of six cluster of communities in Tolon/Kumbungu District namely; Jekpahi-Bagon, Kukuo, Jakpon-Nayili, Donjind, Theyoahi and Balinkeng are predominantly peasant farmers ( ... )
inappropriate and less rewarding farming methods brining in its wake significant land degradation and equal lost of biodiversity resources. In these areas; over grazing of range lands by livestock (local and migrant Fulani herdsmen) collection of fuel wood/ charcoal burning, hunting and wild bush fires, indiscriminate depletion of non-wood products / vegetative cover air and water pollution with
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2008
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22,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/012 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
Adawukwao and Osae-Krodua are two known traditional settlement in the Awutu- sub District traditional area in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District in the Central Region of Ghana which also lies in the Coastal Savanna ( ... )
Adawukwao is about 15 kms drive from Kasoa to Bawjiase about 30 minutes drive which is the Central of about nine other settlements which include Osae-Krodua, Jei-Krodua, Akofful-Krodua, Fiankom, Ofrijato, Korleman, Bawjiase and Topiase with a total population of about 10,540 inhabitants.
Potential for Development
In the Adawukwao and Osae-Krodua areas are varied resources available which
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
International Waters
Land Degradation
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/008 |
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Project Background
The Dangbe East district is located at the Eastern part of the Accra region. It shares common boundaries with north Tongu District in the north, South Tongu District and Dangbe West Districts at the east and west ( ... )
tively. At the south is the Gulf of Guinea which stretches over 45 kilometers. The district covers a total land area of about 909 sq. km.
The district form part of the central portion of the Accra plains depicting a topography that is generally gentle undulating. The average rain fall is about 750 mm. The vegetation is basically coastal savanna characterized by short savanna grass
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/013 |
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BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT AREA
Increasing land degradation and climate change resulting from biodiversity depletion are the bane of the Upper West Region .These are caused largely by human activities. Agriculture and natural resource management ( ... )
Upper West Region is therefore going through difficult times and this is evidenced by the downward trend in agricultural productivity and natural resource management. About 80% of the people are engaged in subsistence farming and depend largely on natural resources. The decline in Agricultural productivity and increase in poverty has been attributed to the misuse of natural resources through
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2008
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24,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/032 |
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Community Protected Areas (CPAs) are patches of traditionally protected primary forests that contain large portion of Ghana’s biodiversity. They are particular ecosystem that their exploitation is strictly regulated by customary laws. They serve ( ... )
ository of numerous endemic species. Their protection sustain and strengthen traditional values as well as protecting endangered species, water corridors of stream and rivers, and conserve their rich biological diversity.
In most rural communities in Ghana, CPAs refer to as ancestral forests that are not disturbed for cultural or religious purposes. They are considered sacred because of some
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Ghana
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Climate Change Mitigation
International Waters
Land Degradation
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2008
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23,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y1/CORE/2008/007 |
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PROBLEM
Increasing land degradation caused by wildfires, apathy, pressure on Savannah woodland resources, over extraction of wood and medicinal plants and the use of inappropriate farming technologies has led to erratic rainfall pattern, ( ... )
azing, poor agricultural yields, low household income, gender inequality and out migration in the Gburumani – Dimabi traditional area. In recent past, land was very fertile and biodiversity was more admirable because traditional law was held in high esteem coupled with low population pressure. As time went by population increased and traditional law slackened to give way to serious land
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
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2008
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8,100.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/YI/CORE/2008/017 |
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The Onyaabonsuadze traditional protected area has been under serious threat through anthropogenic activities as a result of population increase and demand for fertile lands for agricultural purposes and energy needs.
The apparent lack of ( ... )
ative sources of individual or family woodlots farms put enormous pressure on the sacred grove. The Onyaabonsuadze sacred grove, which was about 40 hectares in size according to the local traditional authorities, is systematically being encroached upon and significantly reducing in size as a result of farming activities and cutting of trees for firewood. As the land they cultivate depletes in
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2008
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18,650.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE-GM/08/020 |
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The main problem confronting the people of Pelungu is land degrading caused mainly by unsustainable land management practices, uncontrolled surface mining, wildfires and uncontrolled harvesting of trees for firewood and charcoal production. Farming ( ... )
ce continues to rely on slash and burn because there are no viable alternative livelihood activities where people would engage themselves. Again, indiscriminate bush burning has become rampant in the traditional area having negative effect on the land productivity. Overgrazing does not allow soils to regenerate and regain its loss nutrients to increase crop production but results in decreases in
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Climate Change Mitigation
Land Degradation
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2008
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13,200.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/033 |
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Increasing number of women in extreme and abject poverty in the Akuapen North District and its environs has rendered a vase land marginalized. About eighty percent (80%) of such women are single parents resulting from teenage pregnancy or school ( ... )
ut. They thus eventually become care takers (bread winners) of the whole family shouldering the entire burden.
In their quest to face the ordeal, they tend to over use the only available resource-land to farm or collect firewood and/ or wild fruits for sale to earn a living.
This exercise does not only destroy the fertile agriculture land, but also leave more and more women poor as their only
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Ghana
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Land Degradation
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2008
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18,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE-GM/2008/021 |
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The purpose of the project is to promote collaborative sustainable land management practices in the selected communities through capacity building of farmers on innovative strategies for sustainable land management, introducing farmers to ( ... )
nable livelihood activities and developing access to market opportunities locally and globally.
The specific objectives of the project are as follows:
? To promote sustainable agricultural practices among farmers in the Jirapa, Tiza and Douri area to enable them restore the degraded lands through integrated water and soil management, community based forest woodlot/agro-forestry, wildfires
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Ghana
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Chemicals
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2008
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22,500.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE/2008/028 |
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Kojo Ashong is a farming village about 20 km away from Amasaman in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra Region. With a total adult population of about 500, the people are mostly vegetable farmers producing mostly okra, pepper, garden eggs, ( ... )
l, tomatoes and chilly to Accra and also for export. The community is located on the banks of Densu River which is the main source of drinking water for Accra West (serving about 3 million people).
The method of farming in the area is mostly slash and burn and pesticides are used extensively in vegetable production and to prevent vector borne diseases in the area. The most challenging issue
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Ghana
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Biodiversity
Land Degradation
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2008
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22,000.00
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Phase 4
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Project Number: GHA/SGP/OP4/Y2/CORE /2008/030 |
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The people of Gbungbalga, Zugu and Banchiya communities with a combined total population of 4000 are facing serious land degradation emanating from persistent bushfires, sand wining and unsustainable farming practices. These trends have worsened the ( ... )
situation of the people thereby rendering most of the inhabitants vulnerable and voiceless in the society. The three target communities shared common boundaries at the southern end of Yendi Township. The activities of the inhabitants with regards to efficient land management systems are nothing to write home about. As a result, the area is gradually turning into desert as the lands continue to
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