This research report summarises findings from an ethnographic census, interviews and observations on an Ebrié village within the metropolis of Abidjan, which has undergone a process of rapid, unplanned and irreversible urbanisation since 2012. The study estimates the population number in...

In Burkina Faso, policies influencing land management are bound to have deep impacts on the environment and on the livelihood of the rural population. Two such policies are the national program of gestion de terroirs villageois and the support programs for cotton cultivation by the private...

This paper is based on a field study carried out in 2015 in two coastal ecotourism areas in The Gambia - Kartong and Tanji. The study investigated sustainability communication by tourism service providers in the context of climate change and ecovillage design education (EDE). With an inclusive...

This paper is based on a field study carried out in 2015 in two coastal ecotourism areas in The Gambia - Kartong and Tanji. The study investigated sustainability communication by tourism service providers in the context of climate change and ecovillage design education (EDE). With an inclusive...

In Burkina Faso, policies influencing land management are bound to have deep impacts on the environment and on the livelihood of the rural population. Two such policies are the national program of gestion de terroirs villageois and the support programs for cotton cultivation by the private...

This paper provides a typology of water storage technologies in the Abay sub-basin of the Blue Nile River basin from the 1960s to the present-day. Based on a literature review and project document review, various ways of facility creation and acquisition are analysed with regard to their social...

This anthropological study provides an analysis of environmental observations by farmers and their perceptions of change, as well as models of blame in Northern Ghana, a poor agricultural region of high vulnerability to climate change. Qualitative data were collected through a standardized...

This study analyses the climate change discourses and political dynamics in south-western Burkina Faso from three empirical entry points: (a) the production of the National Adaptation Programmes of Action; (b) climate change discourses in the Ioba province; and (c) the role of the public media....

The diversity of small]scale irrigation on the Fogera plains, in the Ethiopian Blue Nile river basin, includes small dams, hand]dug wells, ponds and river diversion systems. These facilities, however, receive little political attention in negotiations over Nile resources, which focus...