What is it about?
The study draws a link between NGO interventions and local farmers' participation in co-creating improved sustainable farming practices in the Developing World. Findings suggest that through such bottom-up participatory approaches, novel solutions to complex problems of climate change are co-created between farmers and NGO.
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Why is it important?
The problem of climate change threatens the poor the most because they do not have the wherewithal to adjust to its predicted effects. The study shows that for NGOs to make an impact in the lives of the rural poor, they must enlist the support of the poor through bottom-up participatory approaches.
Perspectives
Sustainable farming is an important approach to protecting the fragile environment from over-exploitation and this paper throws light on how participatory approaches can be used as a conduit for environmental protection.
Dr. Alexis Beyuo
University of Ghana
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This page is a summary of: NGO grassroots participatory approaches to promoting sustainable agriculture: reality or Myth in Ghana's Upper-West Region?, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, May 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1742170518000169.
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