The role of translocal practices in a natural climate solution in Ghana
- People-centred reforestation is one of the ways to achieve natural climate solutions. Ghana has established a people-centred reforestation programme known as the Modified Taunya System (MTS) where local people are assigned degraded forest reserves to practice agroforestry. Given that the MTS is a people-centred initiative, socioeconomic factors are likely to have impact on the reforestation drive. This study aims to understand the role of translocal practices of remittances and visits by migrants on the MTS. Using multi-sited, sequential explanatory mixed methods and the lens of socioecological systems, the study shows that social capital and socioeconomic obligations of cash remittances from, as well as visits by migrants to their communities of origin play positive roles on reforestation under the MTS. Specifically, translocal households have access to, and use remittances to engage relatively better in the MTS than households that do not receive remittances. This shows that translocal practices can have a positive impact on thePeople-centred reforestation is one of the ways to achieve natural climate solutions. Ghana has established a people-centred reforestation programme known as the Modified Taunya System (MTS) where local people are assigned degraded forest reserves to practice agroforestry. Given that the MTS is a people-centred initiative, socioeconomic factors are likely to have impact on the reforestation drive. This study aims to understand the role of translocal practices of remittances and visits by migrants on the MTS. Using multi-sited, sequential explanatory mixed methods and the lens of socioecological systems, the study shows that social capital and socioeconomic obligations of cash remittances from, as well as visits by migrants to their communities of origin play positive roles on reforestation under the MTS. Specifically, translocal households have access to, and use remittances to engage relatively better in the MTS than households that do not receive remittances. This shows that translocal practices can have a positive impact on the environment at the area of origin of migrants where there are people-centred environmental policies in place.…
Author: | John NarhORCiD, Stefanie Wehner, Christian UngruheORCiD, Andreas Eberth |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-14138 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11110216 |
Parent Title (English): | Climate |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/10/30 |
Publishing Institution: | Universität Passau |
Release Date: | 2024/04/17 |
Tag: | agroforestry; multi-sited research; reforestation; remittances; sequential explanatory mixed methods; socioecological systems |
Volume: | 2023 |
Issue: | 11 |
Article Number: | 216 |
Page Number: | 16 Seiten |
Institutes: | Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Funding Acknowledgement: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universitätsbibliothek Passau. |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |