Environmental Engineering Reference
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Commercial value yet to be systematically
assessed
Biodiverse cropfarming using traditional and
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Increase in farmers' income from the
Gyamfiase-Adenya, southern Ghana
modern principles
diversity of crops raised
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Principles integrated into farming by
others, including schoolchildren
managing school gardens
Conservation of rare indigenous varieties of rice
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Conservation and propagation
Nyorugu-Benguri-Gore
by female expert farmers, for domestic
of disappearing varieties of crop
consumption and commercial purposes
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Improved farmer income from sales
Forest conserved in the backyard for beekeeping
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Remarkable spread of beekeeping
Initially at Sekesua-Osonson, but has
(for honey and wax) as a means of generating
involving over 70 farmers. This
now spread to other sites in southern
income
development has attracted substantial
and northern Ghana
financial support from a Ghanaian affiliate
of an American NGO
Development of teak woodlot on a
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Popular awareness of prospects
Jachie, central Ghana
commercial basis
of income from woodlots
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PLEC female farmers of Sekesua-
Osonson plan similar trial
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Actual commercial viability yet to
be assessed
Integration of high-yielding citrus into
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Initial group-owned citrus have started
All sites in southern Ghana
traditional farming
flowering and bearing fruits
Spinning and weaving of cotton by elderly
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Acquisition of spinning and weaving
Bongnayili-Dugu-Song, northern Ghana
PLEC females for benefit of younger women
skills by young females and potential
reduction of unemployment, poverty,
and out-migration
Processing of cassava into flour for bread and
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Improved rural incomes
Jachie, central Ghana
pastries by PLEC female farmers
Piggery and sheep raising to be integrated into
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Activity still in formative stage
Amanase-Whanabenya and Gyamfiase-
the conservation process on a commercial basis
Adenya, southern Ghana
