Ghana
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Field Notes | Going Granular in Ghana
12.20.11PROFOR first supported the mapping of landscape restoration opportunities at the global level. It is now drilling down at the country level with an assessment in Ghana. A new map provides a detailed and current picture of Ghana's land cover -- something that was missing until now.
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Knowledge | Information Management and Forest Governance
07.12.11Forest Governance 2.0: A Primer on ICTs and Governance explores a range of information and communication technology uses, including increasing public participation and bolstering law enforcement and economic efficiency, to improve forest governance. It draws on current and planned initiatives, both from within the sector as well as outside, from secondary sources and country reports from Ghana, Finland and Uganda.
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Knowledge | West Africa Forest Strategy
04.21.11PROFOR supported an effort to analyze the forests sector in five countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea (Conakry), Liberia and Sierra Leone) and define elements toward an effective West African forests strategy to ensure conservation and sustainable use of forests, the maintenance of forest ecosystem services, and the fair and equitable allocation of revenues and benefits from forest resources.
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Knowledge | Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit
08.01.10An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods. However, the importance of forests is often overlooked in national development processes such as poverty reduction strategies due to inadequate evidence documenting how forests sustain the poor. To build better knowledge on this critical relationship, PROFOR developed a “Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit” to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis.
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Knowledge | Forest Landscape Restoration: Ghana
06.17.10Assessment of forest landscape restoration potential in Ghana to contribute to REDD+ strategies for climate change mitigation, poverty alleviation and sustainable forest management
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Knowledge | Multifunctional Agriculture and Forest Landscape Mosaics (toolkit)
12.31.08A toolkit to help multi-stakeholder groups define and measure the impacts of ecoagriculture/ forest landscape restoration on productivity, local livelihoods, institutions, and ecosystem services and biodiversity.
