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Migrant farmers as information brokers: agroecosystem management in the transition zone of Ghana
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Isaac, Marney E.; Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences and Center for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough; Department of Geography, University of Toronto; marney.isaac@utoronto.ca; Anglaaere, Luke C. N.; Forestry Research Institute of Ghana;; Akoto, Daniel S.; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;; Dawoe, Evans; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;.
Environmentally induced farmer migration is an important livelihood strategy, yet little is known of the effects on the destination region agroecosystem information networks and management practices. In the forest-savanna transition zone (Brong Ahafo Region) of Ghana, where migration from northern regions (migrant) and from neighboring regions (settler) is active, we chart the role of migrant famers and the type of agroecosystem management practices embedded in information networks using a social networks approach. Based on empirical network data from 44 respondents across three communities, we illustrate a diffuse information network, with variable tie frequency between settlement categories (local, settler, or migrant) of farmers. The cohesion of this...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Agricultural innovation; Agroecology; Agroforestry; Environmental change; Ghana; Natural resource management; Social network analysis; Social-ecological memory; Theobroma cacao.
Ano: 2014

Social-ecological memory as a source of general and specified resilience
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: von Heland, Jacob; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; jacobvonheland@gmail.com.
We explored why social-ecological memory (SEM) is a source of inertia and path dependence, as well as a source of renewal and reorganization in social-ecological systems (SESs). We have presented two case studies: the historical case of the Norse settlement on Greenland and an empirical case from contemporary southern Madagascar. The cases illustrate how SEM is linked to specific pathways of development and a particular set of natural resource management practices. We have shown that in each case, a broader diversity of SEM is present in the SESs, but not drawn upon. Instead, SEMs are part of what explains community coherence and the barriers to adoption of more diverse practices. We have elaborated on how specific SEMs are linked to specified resilience,...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: General and specified resilience; Identity; Pathway dependency; Robustness; Social-ecological memory.
Ano: 2014