DDRN-seminar om trækulsindustrien i Ghana

Det første seminar sætter spot på trækulsindustrien i Ghana, som beskæfitger anslået 450.000 personer, og dens indvirkning socialt og økonomisk.  

Se mere her: http://ddrn.dk/intro.html

Seminaret har titlen ”Access and eXclusion along the Charcoal Commodity Chain in Ghana (AX)” og præsenteres af Christian Pilegaard Hansen, lektor, PhD, Global udvikling, Københavns universitet.

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Presentation in English:

Danish Development Research Network (DDRN) hereby invites all interested parties to participate in three after work seminars this spring. Each seminar will present a newly launched development research project for an early discussion on problem analysis, research design and expected results.

Please find more information here: http://ddrn.dk/intro.html

The first seminar is on Tuesday 19. May with the title: ”Access and eXclusion along the Charcoal Commodity Chain in Ghana (AX)” presented by Christian Pilegaard Hansen, Associate Professor, PhD, Global development, Copenhagen University.

DDRN invites researchers, students, aid practitioners, private sector representatives, consultants and other stakeholders to participate.

Seminar 1: 

“Access and eXclusion along the Charcoal Commodity Chain in Ghana (AX)” – a DANIDA funded research project which examines how each set of actors along Ghana’s charcoal chain gain or maintain access to benefits.

Description: 

The research project examines how each set of actors along Ghana’s charcoal chain gain or maintain access to benefits.

Access, defined as “the ability to benefit from things,” is controlled and maintained via a broad repertoire of social and structural means – including rights (property), authority, coercion, stealth, or identity-based privilege.

Understanding these processes and means is a prerequisite for any prescription aiming at equitable natural resource benefit sharing. AX investigates access, and its converse, exclusion – how they are established, maintained and lost – in the case of the charcoal commodity chain in Ghana, from woodcutters to end users.

It also analyzes the environmental sustainability of production as it is shaped by access relations.

In Ghana, woodfuels provide for 64 per cent of the primary energy consumption and some 450,000 people produce, transport and market charcoal as their primary occupation.

AX strengthens research capacity through three embedded PhD studies, closely coordinated with senior staff from Ghana and DK. To link research, policy and practice, AX establishes two district-level charcoal platforms and a national stakeholder forum to share and discuss research findings and further their application.

AX identifies how means of access and exclusion shape current distribution of benefits in this sector. It provides the basis for the design of equitable natural resource policy and practice. This project will hone access analysis as a means for guiding the design of natural resource benefit sharing arrangements. 

Source: http://ifro.ku.dk/english/research/projects/projects_development/

Yderligere oplysninger hos:

Sofie Hvid Rasmussen
Student Assistant 
e-mail: [email protected]

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