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A Gender Analysis of the Determinants of Youth Unemployment in Côte d’Ivoire 对Côte科特迪瓦青年失业决定因素的性别分析

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2020-06-05 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.85287

I. Sy, Akrassi Kouakou Evrard Kouame

引用次数: 2

The Role of International Donors in Aquaculture Development in Africa 国际捐助者在非洲水产养殖发展中的作用

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2020-05-08 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86569

O. J. Olapade

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引用次数: 1

Economic Integration in West Africa: A Reconsideration of the Evidence 西非经济一体化:对证据的重新思考

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2020-04-23 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86655

A. Ekpo

引用次数: 3

World Trade Organization’s Trade Liberalization Policy on Agriculture and Food Security in West Africa 世界贸易组织关于西非农业和粮食安全的贸易自由化政策

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2020-04-22 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86558

Emeka C. Iloh, Michael E. Nwokedi, Chijioke Francis Onyebukwa, Queeneth Ekeocha

{"title":"World Trade Organization’s Trade Liberalization Policy on Agriculture and Food Security in West Africa","authors":"Emeka C. Iloh, Michael E. Nwokedi, Chijioke Francis Onyebukwa, Queeneth Ekeocha","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.86558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86558","url":null,"abstract":"The study explores the link between WTO's trade liberalization policy on agriculture and food security in West Africa. Specifically, it investigates whether the policy undermines food security in the subregion by examining its impacts on food importation and food dumping. The study relied mainly on documentary evidence. Data were scooped from documents and annual publications of the WTO, UNCTAD, FAO, ECOWAS, and World Bank. Data were analysed using content analysis, rooted on logical deductions. The results of data analysis show that the increased dependency on international trade (as being championed by the WTO) by many countries in West Africa has a number of direct and indirect implications on the realization of food security in the subregion. Importation not only exposes producers and consumers to increased vulnerability both to worsening terms of trade and to fluctuations in commodity prices, but also exposes the domestic food-producing industries to danger of extinction through steep competition. The study also found that relying on international trade for food supply encourages dumping of the excess products on developing countries at relatively cheaper prices. This harms domestic production and reduces the income of domestic farmers and other investors in the food production chain.","PeriodicalId":268099,"journal":{"name":"Regional Development in Africa","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121276781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Economic Development of Rural Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa through Decentralized Energy-Water-Food Systems 通过分散的能源-水-粮食系统实现撒哈拉以南非洲农村社区的经济发展

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2020-01-11 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90424

J. Winklmaier, S. Santos, Tobias Trenkle

{"title":"Economic Development of Rural Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa through Decentralized Energy-Water-Food Systems","authors":"J. Winklmaier, S. Santos, Tobias Trenkle","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.90424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.90424","url":null,"abstract":"Access to electricity is essential for humanity to develop. Nowadays, 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have no access to energy services, most of them living in rural areas. However, this region has an outstanding solar potential that could unlock cheap power generation through solar power systems. This raises the question of how rural communities in Africa could avail the benefits of renewable energy systems to gain access to electricity and develop sustainable and productive activities around while facing low purchase power, high interest rates, and high investment costs. The concept of decentralized energy-water-food system proposes a solution: it enables renewable energy access with biomass and solar energy for the private power of the local community, provides secure water supply and year-round irrigation, and increases their livelihood through the profitability of farming and generation of jobs. The concept is applied to a case study in rural Ghana and the least-cost design is obtained. An economic feasibility analysis is carried out on the evaluation of profitability and the total financial value generated for the main stakeholders. The results portrait the economic advantages of the proposed concept design--a hybrid solar-biogas system--to deliver affordable electricity, water, and food supply.","PeriodicalId":268099,"journal":{"name":"Regional Development in Africa","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123638040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Sustainably Growing Guinea’s Bauxite-Aluminum Industry 几内亚铝土矿铝工业的可持续发展

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2019-10-10 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86471

L. Widder, Thomas D. Pacioni, O. Bocoum

{"title":"Sustainably Growing Guinea’s Bauxite-Aluminum Industry","authors":"L. Widder, Thomas D. Pacioni, O. Bocoum","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.86471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86471","url":null,"abstract":"Guinea's bauxite-aluminum industry is undergoing significant expansion of investment, concession agreements, and in-country mining and refining operations. In 2018, UNDP-Guinea and Columbia University developed a framework that would evaluate this development against metrics for social and environmental sustainability, such as energy access and diversification, water quality, land use, biodiversity restoration, waste management, and community engagement. Current environmental impacts measured in GHGs, a metric both economic and environmental, were compared to potential impacts anticipated as a consequence of expansion. These anticipated impacts include enormous increases in countrywide GHG emissions and significant regional shortfalls in access to electrical energy. Case studies from the international bauxite-aluminum industry were then used to illustrate best practices for climate mitigation and adaptation and to describe opportunities for regional collaboration on shared-use energy and infrastructure development (e.g., hydropower used across West Africa, rail transportation) while achieving measurable benefits to communities, NGOs, regulators, and mining companies.","PeriodicalId":268099,"journal":{"name":"Regional Development in Africa","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130524980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

The Songhai Agroecological Sustainable Development Model: Synergy, Symbiosis, Collaboration, and Complementarity 松海农业生态可持续发展模式:协同、共生、协作、互补

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.87929

J. Tharakan

{"title":"The Songhai Agroecological Sustainable Development Model: Synergy, Symbiosis, Collaboration, and Complementarity","authors":"J. Tharakan","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.87929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.87929","url":null,"abstract":"The development across Africa has been piecemeal and uneven, sometimes actually leading to impoverishment and \"underdevelopment.\" Former colonizers and multilateral development agencies have often been the agents of these postcolonial development practices, which focused on facilitation of extraction of wealth, either as material resources or raw agricultural product and export, usually to former colonial era companies. The processing of those natural resources produced immense value-added wealth; however, not much wealth returned to Africa. These development models have been piecemeal, with symptomatic solutions that are Band-Aids, resulting in minimal progress in terms of actual improvement in the quality of life and well-being of citizens. To counter this, it is necessary to shift from linear, mechanistic worldviews to holistic, complex visualizations that are integrated and systemic. This transformation, in understanding and conceptualization through system lenses, makes clear that the unit of development must be ecosystems centered and represent organizational patterns that encompass the whole environment, including human, social, cultural, technological, and economic facets. This new understanding requires comprehensive ecological literacy transitioning from homo-arrogance to biomimicry. Such transformation enables comprehensive solutions that account for interaction among natural, physical, and social phenomena. This chapter describes a development approach, embodied in the Songhai model and conceptualized, developed, and successfully implemented by Godfrey Nzamujo. It captures the essence and reflects a new paradigm, whose core foundational ideas are synergy, symbiosis, collaboration, and complementarity. This new paradigm, as demonstrated by Nzamujo and Songhai, is described as a potentially transformative development model, ensuring sustainability for the future of Africa.","PeriodicalId":268099,"journal":{"name":"Regional Development in Africa","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126233627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

The Factors Influencing SMEs Growth in Africa: A Case of SMEs in Zimbabwe 影响非洲中小企业成长的因素:以津巴布韦中小企业为例

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2019-09-27 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.87192

Kosmas Njanike

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引用次数: 7

Trade and Investment in South Africa 南非的贸易和投资

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2019-08-14 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.87186

G. V. Mabe-Madisa

引用次数: 1

Solid Waste Management in Africa: Governance Failure or Development Opportunity? 非洲固体废物管理:治理失败还是发展机遇?

Regional Development in Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-24 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.86974

L. Godfrey, M. T. Ahmed, K. Gebremedhin, J. Katima, S. Oelofse, O. Osibanjo, Ulf H. Richter, Arsène H. Yonli

{"title":"Solid Waste Management in Africa: Governance Failure or Development Opportunity?","authors":"L. Godfrey, M. T. Ahmed, K. Gebremedhin, J. Katima, S. Oelofse, O. Osibanjo, Ulf H. Richter, Arsène H. Yonli","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.86974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.86974","url":null,"abstract":"Waste management is a social, economic, and environmental problem facing all African countries. If the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development is to be achieved, sustainable waste management approaches must be an environmental and public health imperative deserving political priority. Current reasons for the poor management of waste in Africa, include, amongst others, weak organizational structures; lack of appropriate skills; inadequate budgets; weak legislation; lack of enforcement; low public awareness; corruption, conflict; political instability; and lack of political will. At the heart of the problem, is a failure in governance. However, through these gaps, many social and technological innovations have emerged. Innovations that recognize the opportunity that waste provides as a secondary resource. Diverting waste away from dumpsites and landfills towards reuse, recycling and recovery can improve the livelihoods of thousands of informal waste reclaimers, while also creating new jobs and business opportunities for the continent. Reintroducing secondary resources such as polymer, fiber, metals and nutrients back into local value chains has the potential to strengthen manufacturing economies and reduce the economic burden on product imports. Bringing waste under control in Africa and unlocking the opportunities that “waste” provides as “resource” will require immediate intervention by government, business and civil society.","PeriodicalId":268099,"journal":{"name":"Regional Development in Africa","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127168377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 35