Yaw Agyeman Boafo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined perceptions held by rural households in Northern Ghana regarding the value of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in the management of ecosystem services and found that household awareness of TEK did not equate with compliance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed rural participatory research approaches in developing four vulnerability categories namely socio-economic, ecological, engineering and political, which were used to develop indicators that aided the calculation of total community vulnerability index for each community, and found that the state of a community's vulnerability to flood is a composite effect of the four vulnerability index categories which may act independently or concurrently to produce the net effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the findings of an empirical survey in rural semi-arid Ghana investigating how households are employing communal sharing as a strategy to enhance access and management of nine provisioning ecosystem services (provisioning ES) namely crops and vegetables, livestock and poultry, bushmeat, freshwater, wildplants, fodder and forage, traditional medicine, fuelwood, and building materials.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for community-based resilience assessment was developed through an experiment conducted in selected rural communities in the Tolon and Wa West Districts in the Northern and Upper West Regions of Ghana.