The Conversation
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Community conservation in Ghana has evolved, but policy and funding need to catch up
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Ghana's community resource management areas represent an evolving approach to conservation that empowers local communities to manage natural resources sustainably, but policy and funding mechanisms have not kept pace with this community-led model's growth.
Community conservation in Ghana has evolved, but policy and funding need to catch up
In Ghana, community resource management areas are the main way that local communities get involved in managing natural resources that fall outside protected areas. In this way, rural people protect their natural environment and earn a living from using nature sustainably.
The community resource management areas adopt a very different approach from fortress conservation. This is known to exclude and evict local communities from their lands.
Since the early 2000s, more than 63 community resource m
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