Abstract/Overview The role of local government institution and especially institutional structures and political culture often shape government performance including livelihood supporting activities such as Urban Agriculture (UA). The changing population pattern orchestrated by the spread of urbanization has resulted into a rise in poverty and food demand, necessitating UA. However, there seem to be limited documentation with regard to how local governance institutions influence and promo...
Abstract Leadership and governance are crucial to planning and implementing how society use their natural resources for long term sustainable benefit, evaluating outcomes, and the shifts and corrections needed. By their very nature, they operate in a political and socio-economic context, and outcomes depend on political and social acceptance of objectives and their operational forms. This, in turn, enhances the mobilization of resources and their application to achieve set goals. They are ...
Chiri (2017) described Zimbabwe’s state enterprises and parastatals (SEPs) as a burden to the fiscus. The article seeks to determine the effect of board member experience and age on profitability and efficiency of SEPs, respectively, as there has been little research, particularly in emerging markets. A positivist paradigm was adopted using a cross-sectional survey. The target population of the study consisted of all SEPs totalling 107 from which a sample of 20 SEPs was selected from the cl...
ABSTRACT: Since the abrupt interruption of the indigenous systems of governance, it can be argued that the superior model of governance introduced by the colonialists has failed to achieve sustainable evidence of good governance for the citizens of Nigeria. This colonial tendency was passed on to the post-independence era even to the present day democratic federal system of government. Governance is important in determining institutional norms and structures; it provides the guide to how coun...
ABSTRACT The study seeks to investigate into social infrastructure and its contribution to rural livelihood in Mpohor District. To achieve the objective, various methods were used to collect data these include; Questionnaires, Observations, and Interviews. The findings of the the study was that; social infrastructure contribute to the socio-economical lives of the rural dwellers, it provides employment, it reduces migration and immigration in the rural communities, absent and inadequate lead...
ABSTRACT When it comes to landownership in Ghana especially in the patrilineal areas such as Northern Ghana, there is a high perception that women do not own land and generally perceived that women are discriminated against in terms of their land rights (Bugri, 2008). This notion affects the productivity of women in Agriculture. Therefore, this study uses gender analyses of access to agriculture land; evidence from Wa Municipality, Upper West Region of Ghana. The research was conducted thr...