All Outputs (4)

Socio-economic findings of the five village study: actions research to evaluate the impact on livelihoods of a set of post-harvest interventions in Ghana's off-road settlements. Report to the UK Department for International Development, June 2003 (2003)
Report
Porter, G., Owusu Acheampong, F., & Blaufuss, K. (2003). Socio-economic findings of the five village study: actions research to evaluate the impact on livelihoods of a set of post-harvest interventions in Ghana's off-road settlements. Report to the UK Department for International Development, June 2003. Department for International Development

The project focusses on the problems of low productivity and associated poverty in off-road areas (ie: areas away from good paved roads). Off-road rural areas and populations are frequently markedly poorer than those in comparable roadside locations... Read More about Socio-economic findings of the five village study: actions research to evaluate the impact on livelihoods of a set of post-harvest interventions in Ghana's off-road settlements. Report to the UK Department for International Development, June 2003.

Development hegemonies and local outcomes: women and NGOs in low-income countries. (2003)
Book Chapter
Townsend, J., Mawdsley, E., & Porter, G. (2003). Development hegemonies and local outcomes: women and NGOs in low-income countries. In E. Koffman, & G. Youngs (Eds.), Globalization: theory and practice. (2nd). Continuum

Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991-2001 (2003)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Harris, F., Lyon, F., Dung, J., & Adepetu, A. (2003). Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991-2001. The Geographical Journal, 169(4), 370-381. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0016-7398.2003.00100.x

This paper explores changing socio-environmental interactions in the vegetable producing areas of the Jos Plateau over the decade 1991–2001. It considers the pressures of market forces and ethnic competition and the tensions which arise as interactio... Read More about Markets, ethnicity and environment in a vulnerable landscape: the case of small-scale vegetable production on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria, 1991-2001.

NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana (2003)
Journal Article
Porter, G. (2003). NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana. Progress in Development Studies, 3(2), 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993403ps057ra

This paper is concerned with the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge about poverty in very poor countries. Interviews with st... Read More about NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana.