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Traditional authority: Accountability and governance in Zimbabwe by Mapedza, Everisto D.

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Local Natural Resources Management in Ghana: The Role of Traditional Authority by Sulemana, Tamara Amina

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Traditional authority, customary law and accountability within CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe by Mapedza, Everisto D.

“…It will demonstrate how the reconfiguration of traditional authority in Zimbabwe has undermined the accountability and legitimacy of traditional authorities in the north-western parts of Zimbabwe. …”
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The role of traditional authorities in water resources management in Binaaba, Bawku West District by Sulemana, Tamara Amina

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Can Traditional Authority Improve the Governance of Forestland and Sustainability? Case Study from the Congo (DRC) by Majambu, E., Mampeta Wabasa, S., Welepele Elatre, C., Boutinot, L., Ongolo, S.

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Incorporating local institutions in irrigation experiments: evidence from rural communities in Pakistan by Javaid, A., Falk, Thomas

Subjects: “…traditional authorities…”
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Soya for the sick by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Mercy Chavula of the Orphan and Home Based Care Committee in Kuntaja traditional authority, Blantyre, Malawi, explains the benefits of growing soya, a highly nutritious crop which is having a major impact on the health of children and the sick in her comm…”
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Promoting mixed farming system innovations in Malawi: A unified approach by Mzumara, Edward, Homann-Kee Tui, Sabine, Liben, Feyera, Banda, Mcloyd, Botoman, Lester, Kinyua, Michael, Kihara, Job

“…Everlister Chidothi, a representative of Traditional Authority Mlumbe in Zomba District, emphasized the need to reach more farmers. …”
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The organizational structures for community-based natural resources management in Southern Africa by Campbell, Bruce M., Shackleton, S.

“…Village Forest Committees); (3) organizations or authorities outside the state hierarchy (e.g. traditional authority, residents’ associations), and (4) corporate organizations at the village level (e.g. …”
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AICCRA SPnS report: Evidence and learnings from Ghana by Ofosu-ampong, Kingsley, Seidu, Hisham, Yeboah, Patricia Amankwaa, Obeng, Faustina Adomaa, Maguta, Job Kihara, Abera, Wuletawu

“…A community in Northern Ghana is a socially connected group of households living within a shared geographic area (ranges 500-2500 people)—often a village or neighbourhood—bound together by kinship networks, traditional authority, livelihood activities, and cultural identity. …”
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: where does the new power lie?: a case study of Duru-Haitemba, Babati, Tanzania by Kajembe, G.C., Monela, G.C.

“…A range of factors may account for this, including: technological change; breakdown of traditional authority; social change; urban aspirations and intrusion of inappropriate state policies. …”
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Modern economic theory and the challenge of embedded tenure institutions: African attempts to reform local forest policies by Diaw, C.

“…Other analyses have tended to overemphasize the controversial role of traditional authority at the expense of a deeper institutional analysis of the embedded system. …”
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The impacts of formal and informal institutions on a forest management project in Cameroon by Ashu, Samuel Tabi Nkongho

“…The thesis explores how the implementation of a new forest law in Cameroon affects and interacts with the traditional authority system that previously regulated the forest use and forest management. …”
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Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime by Sova, Chase, Thornton, Thomas F., Zougmoré, Robert B., Helfgott, Ariella E.S., Chaudhury, Abrar S.

“…Differentiated perspectives (i.e. national, regional or local respondents alone) reveal that several potential cross-level bridging institutions are not considered influential at all operational levels. Farmers, traditional authorities, and the District Assembly, for example, are all considered highly influential from the perspective of local-level respondents, but their counterpart agencies at the national level are not considered influential by policymakers there. …”
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Perceived land tenure security and rural transformation: Empirical evidence from Ghana by Ghebru, Hosaena, Khan, Huma, Lambrecht, Isabel B.

“…Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via purchase or inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. Collectively, however, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. …”
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Profiling local-level outcomes of environmental decentralizations: the case of Cameroon’s forests in the Congo Basin by Oyono, P.R.

“…It shows that the experiment has not yet brought up expected positive results and very often generates internal conflicts, a new social stratification and the marginalization of traditional authorities. Second, the article argues that decentralized management is not producing positive economic results, as there is no significant economic change in the case study villages. …”
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Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development by Mataya, C., Gondo, P., Kowero, G.S.

“…The private and public land tenure, did not only reduce the size of land available to indigeneous communities for agricultural and non-agricultural activities, but also compromised the roles and power of traditional authorities in controlling and managing natural resources including miombo woodlands. …”
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Examining relationships between customary and state institutions in Ghana's decentralized system by Belden, Cory

“…Traditional authorities are powerful leaders alongside the state in Ghana. …”
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Land-based Investments for rural development?: A grounded analysis of the local Impacts of biofuel feedstock plantations in Ghana by Schoneveld, George C., German, L., Nutakor, E.

“…It finds that companies are accessing large contiguous areas of customary land through opaque negotiations with traditional authorities, often outside the purview of government and customary land users. …”
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Innovation platforms and institutional change: the case of small-scale palm oil processing in Ghana by Adjei-Nsiah, Samuel, Klerkx, Laurens

“…The institutional changes observed are shown to arise in cooperation between traditional authorities (chiefs), the district legislature and authorities at the national level, who together institutionalised the experimental actions and processes taken in the study area. …”
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