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Research questions: How does salinity intrusion affect agricultural production and food security and how are male and female farmers different in those impacts? Key Messages
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Environmental economists and graduate students from Makerere University held a meeting with government officials to identify research and data gaps to address the persistent environmental and natural…
Welcome to our 2nd seminar this year. Dr Hilary Ndambiri will present on "Choice Certainty and Consistency in Discrete Choice Experiments: A case analysis of sweet potato production in Western Kenya"
Environmental economists from Makerere University have called on urban authorities to harness the abundant human and organic waste in the cities to produce biogas and organic fertilizers. They argue…
Research fellows and graduate students taking environmental-related courses at Makerere University have been retooled on communicating research findings. The training was part of the EfD-Mak seminar…
Research questions: What factors affect male and female farmers’ choices of adaptive measures to saltwater intrusion?
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Research questions: How does gender matter in intra-household adaptation choices in response to salinity intrusion and which factors affect the choices?
In sub-Sahara Africa, sustainable agricultural sector has been trumpeted as the surest way for livelihood transformation through poverty reduction and ensuring food and nutritional security. Using mango farming as a case study, the paper determines how sustainable agriculture can be achieved by examining the environmental, social and economic impacts of mango farms in a rural setting. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to collect primary data from 400 respondents from the Shai Osu-Doku and Yilo-Krobo Districts of the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions respectively of Ghana.