P.O. Box 5628
Kumasi
Tel: (00 233 51) 60208
Fax: (00 233 51) 60206
Contact: Dr. Debrah Kwesi Opoku

In 1993 , NARMSAP was formed through the efforts of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development and World Vision Ghana, with the aim to improve living standards and long-term prospects for the savannah ecosystem. As a broad-based partnership involving local civil-society communities and major Ghanaian universities, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, NARMSAP works with communities and institutions to promote sustainable land use practices in the Greater Afram Plains, where deforestation and soil erosion are threatening the livelihoods and future of its 600,000 residents. Starting from a narrow set of institutional actors, the partnership has evolved into a diverse coalition of social actors wherein community partnerships have increasingly become a central feature.

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Knowledge generation from farmers in agricultural and natural resources management. NARMSAP has had 10 years of partnership experience on knowledge generation and utilization in the management of agriculure and natural resoruces. From this experience, it acknowledges and affirms the wisdom and experience of farmers that is often grounded in their initiate interaction with their farming and resource environments.

NARMSP realizes that the capacities of local actors to innovate in spontaneous response to situation-specific challenges in their farming systems, should be receiving as much support as convincing farmers to adopt new technologies, which could be done through networking, building and management relationships with others.

Collecting and documenting knowledge of land and resource management problems.Collecting and documenting knowledge would facilitate and enrich the building up of a network around land and tenure issues which NARMSAP expects to do. Its preliminary survey shows that land loss is increasingly common due to rising land fragmentation, surface mining activities, land erosion due to unsustainable agricultural practices and confiscation of land by the government to create environmental reserves.

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