There is mounting evidence that efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of human activity on climate and biodiversity have so far been unsuccessful. Explanations for this failure point to a number of factors discussed in this article. While acknowledging cognitive dissonance as a significant contributing …

The study examined the effects of intra-household dynamics and household food consumption and accessibility among beneficiaries of Resilience In Northern Ghana (RING) project within the Sagnarigu Municipality in the Northern Region of Ghana. The project engages rural women in the production of leafy …

Garden for Health international (GHI) has been offering nutrition education to mothers in order to prevent chronic malnutrition. The training offered cover different topics related on feeding practice like hygiene and sanitation, breastfeeding, complementary feeding and dietary diversity. The aim of …

The significance of effective interprofessional teamwork to improve the quality of care has been widely recognised. Effective interprofessional teamwork calls on good collaboration between professionals and patients, coordination between professionals, and the development of teamwork over time. Effective development …

Access to micro-credit has often been argued to be one of the effective ways of contributing to food and nutrition security. CARE International since 1994 introduced the Village Savings and Loans Associ-ation (VSLA) in Ghana. The VSLA since then, has been contributing to making some amount of micro-credit …

La Prosperité is an old colonial timber plantation in the rural district of Para in Suriname, which was purchased by a group of former plantation workers after the abolition of slavery. It is occupied by the small village of Bersaba which consists primarily of descendants of those who passed it on as …

Community forestry is a way to combine forest conservation with economic development of forest depending communities. In the Pacific zone of northern Peru, the rural population heavily relies on the endemic dry forest ecosystem as a source of firewood, timber and as grazing area. Bad management, overuse …

Connected through a screen, two classes that are an ocean apart take the same course and do the same assignments. Our course “ The Global Village” is a globally networked learning environment (Starke-Meyerring and Wilson, 2008) where students from two different universities work and learn together using …