Roland Azibo Balgah
Biographic Data
| ID | 973103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Azibo Balgah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland Azibo |
| FAMILY NAME | Balgah |
| SIGNATURE | BALGAH R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamenda |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6117-2282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rural livelihood strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review on Cameroon
Rural populations often rely on diverse and complex livelihood strategies to survive. However, existing studies predominantly emphasize diversification, overlooking other critical strategies such as intensification and extensification. A comprehensive examination of rural livelihood strategies is crucial for informing pro-poor policy decisions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where poverty remains widespread. This study conducts a syste…
Institutional jelling in socio-ecological systems: Towards a novel theoretical construct
Institutional dynamics trigger resource management decisions and practices around socio-ecological systems (SESs), with (sub-) optimal management outcomes. For instance, studies show that formal institutions are continually prioritized over informal ones in land use decisions – the latter also countervailing the former in several instances. This reality presents an opportunity to theorize in favour of a new institutional arrangement that blends f…
Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon
Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under‐researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected “Anglophone” conflict between a separatist movement and the government of Cameroon, which impacts livelihoods and social relations. Using data generated th…
Nonprofit commercialization: What shapes the perceptions of top managers
Business‐like thinking among NPOs and scholars has stimulated growing but contested views on what constitutes commercialization and what drives its adoption. Unfortunately, empirical efforts have largely neglected the perspective of nonprofit managers who play pivotal roles in commercialization decisions. To stem this knowledge gap, this study applies a mixed methods on a case study from Cameroon to elicit top nonprofit managers' perceptions to c…
Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes
Infrastructure development and community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa: A structural equation modeling – based contribution from Cameroon
Infrastructure development’s contribution to community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is largely unknown. Existing scholarship over-represents externally funded projects, sidelining micro-level initiatives. Empirical studies hardly apply Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approaches that estimate wellbeing as a composite function of infrastructure development. We review the topical literature on infrastructure development and community wel…
Covid-19 and food security risk in Nkambe Cameroon: Perceptions, drivers and household response measures
Covid-19 impact on agriculture and food security in Africa. A systematic review and meta-analysis
Africa’s Energy Availability-Deficiency Paradox: Lessons from Small-scale Biogas Technology and Policy Implications
The energy crisis associated with energy poverty in Africa continues to keep millions of men, women and children in absolute poverty due to inadequate access to clean energy. Despite its widely recognised importance for sustainable development, theoretical and policy discourses have largely remained dormant with respect to the role that the paradox of energy deficiency plays in the underdevelopment of Africa. This study illustrates how the exploi…
Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Institutions and Processes
The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: Conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency”
One of Africa’s newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential to degenerate into a complex emergency. In an exploratory, qualitative, analytical, and descriptive case study research tradition involving document/content analysis, we apply the Robert Strauss…
Farm-based climate adaptation dynamics: Insights from the vegetable sector in the Western Highlands of Cameroon
Agro-based climate adaptation has gained traction in scholarly and policy circles, albeit with limited comprehensive empirical evidence on the pathways of crop sector-specific adaptation approaches in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To stem this knowledge gap, this study examines the evolution of farm-based climate adaptation practices in the vegetable subsector of Cameroon’s western highlands. Specifically, we (i) explore the different adaptation prac…
Nexus approach and environmental resource governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is replete with significant environmental resources including forests, water, land, and energy; although its transition to a bio-resource economy is yet to be actualized. Consequently, there are limited socio-economic gains from resource valorization. These challenges which stall progress towards the attainment of several interlinked sustainable development goals, are rooted, among others in resource governance defects. F…
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events
Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of events, creates cascading and systemic impacts, poses significant challenges to food systems research and policy alike. To identify priority food security risks and research opportunities, we asked experts from …
Forest management institutions and actor-centered conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary realities and future avenues for research and policy
Colonial hangover and institutional bricolage processes in forest use practices in Cameroon
An empirical analysis of credit-financed agribusiness investments and income poverty dynamics of rural women in Cameroon
The link between microcredit and income poverty reduction for the poor is well established. However, contemporary empirical evidence remains mixed, especially among women beneficiaries. We use a purposive sample of 160 women from 80 microcredit groups of the Program for the Improvement of the Competitiveness of Family Agro Pastoral Farms (ACEFA) in Cameroon to assess the relationships between rural women’s microcredit access and their income pove…
Livelihood Diversification and Household Well-Being: Insights and Policy Implications for Forest-Based Communities in Cameroon
Growing evidence suggests a nuanced link between diversification and well-being for forest communities. We contribute to clarify this nuance, by analyzing the well-being outcomes linked to forest and non-forest diversification choices, through a systematic sample of 200 households around the Kilum-Ijim Forest Landscape (KIFL) of Cameroon. A composite household well-being index based on the Human Development Index approach, and the ordinary least …
Can policy deviance reduce poverty? A critical analysis of self-return migration in Cameroon
The general focus of policy is to achieve pre-designed goals considered by policy-makers to be of interest to societies or targeted groups. Policy research has, therefore, witnessed a significant tilt towards improving scientific knowledge and understanding policy enactment processes, and the extent to which they achieve desired goals. Policy deviance - the tendency for members of society to ignore or disrespect laid-down policy guidelines - has …
The impact of effective management of natural disasters For Africa’s development
The escalation of natural disasters in the last two decades or so and their devastating effects on developing countries in general and Africa in particular, has been frequently mentioned in the topical literature. Devastating impacts in African and other developing countries have often been attributed to the failure of formal (state and market) institutions for risk management, frequent in these countries. While the predominance of informal respo…
Sustaining livelihoods around community forests. What is the potential contribution of wildlife domestication
Community forest management is often advanced as a remedy for failing top-down approaches to nature conservation. Contingent on the property rights theory, it assumes that local participation in natural resource management results in sustainable structures. There is, however, insufficient empirical evidence on the intra-community dynamics - especially when households have unequal access to the local institutions managing the natural resource. Thi…
Colonial hangover and institutional bricolage processes in forest use practices in Cameroon
An empirical analysis of credit-financed agribusiness investments and income poverty dynamics of rural women in Cameroon
The link between microcredit and income poverty reduction for the poor is well established. However, contemporary empirical evidence remains mixed, especially among women beneficiaries. We use a purposive sample of 160 women from 80 microcredit groups of the Program for the Improvement of the Competitiveness of Family Agro Pastoral Farms (ACEFA) in Cameroon to assess the relationships between rural women’s microcredit access and their income pove…
Livelihood Diversification and Household Well-Being: Insights and Policy Implications for Forest-Based Communities in Cameroon
Growing evidence suggests a nuanced link between diversification and well-being for forest communities. We contribute to clarify this nuance, by analyzing the well-being outcomes linked to forest and non-forest diversification choices, through a systematic sample of 200 households around the Kilum-Ijim Forest Landscape (KIFL) of Cameroon. A composite household well-being index based on the Human Development Index approach, and the ordinary least …
Forest management institutions and actor-centered conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary realities and future avenues for research and policy
Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes
Infrastructure development and community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa: A structural equation modeling – based contribution from Cameroon
Infrastructure development’s contribution to community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is largely unknown. Existing scholarship over-represents externally funded projects, sidelining micro-level initiatives. Empirical studies hardly apply Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approaches that estimate wellbeing as a composite function of infrastructure development. We review the topical literature on infrastructure development and community wel…
Can policy deviance reduce poverty? A critical analysis of self-return migration in Cameroon
The general focus of policy is to achieve pre-designed goals considered by policy-makers to be of interest to societies or targeted groups. Policy research has, therefore, witnessed a significant tilt towards improving scientific knowledge and understanding policy enactment processes, and the extent to which they achieve desired goals. Policy deviance - the tendency for members of society to ignore or disrespect laid-down policy guidelines - has …
Sustaining livelihoods around community forests. What is the potential contribution of wildlife domestication
Community forest management is often advanced as a remedy for failing top-down approaches to nature conservation. Contingent on the property rights theory, it assumes that local participation in natural resource management results in sustainable structures. There is, however, insufficient empirical evidence on the intra-community dynamics - especially when households have unequal access to the local institutions managing the natural resource. Thi…
Sustaining livelihoods around community forests. What is the potential contribution of wildlife domestication
Community forest management is often advanced as a remedy for failing top-down approaches to nature conservation. Contingent on the property rights theory, it assumes that local participation in natural resource management results in sustainable structures. There is, however, insufficient empirical evidence on the intra-community dynamics - especially when households have unequal access to the local institutions managing the natural resource. Thi…
The impact of effective management of natural disasters For Africa’s development
The escalation of natural disasters in the last two decades or so and their devastating effects on developing countries in general and Africa in particular, has been frequently mentioned in the topical literature. Devastating impacts in African and other developing countries have often been attributed to the failure of formal (state and market) institutions for risk management, frequent in these countries. While the predominance of informal respo…
Can policy deviance reduce poverty? A critical analysis of self-return migration in Cameroon
The general focus of policy is to achieve pre-designed goals considered by policy-makers to be of interest to societies or targeted groups. Policy research has, therefore, witnessed a significant tilt towards improving scientific knowledge and understanding policy enactment processes, and the extent to which they achieve desired goals. Policy deviance - the tendency for members of society to ignore or disrespect laid-down policy guidelines - has …
An empirical analysis of credit-financed agribusiness investments and income poverty dynamics of rural women in Cameroon
The link between microcredit and income poverty reduction for the poor is well established. However, contemporary empirical evidence remains mixed, especially among women beneficiaries. We use a purposive sample of 160 women from 80 microcredit groups of the Program for the Improvement of the Competitiveness of Family Agro Pastoral Farms (ACEFA) in Cameroon to assess the relationships between rural women’s microcredit access and their income pove…
Livelihood Diversification and Household Well-Being: Insights and Policy Implications for Forest-Based Communities in Cameroon
Growing evidence suggests a nuanced link between diversification and well-being for forest communities. We contribute to clarify this nuance, by analyzing the well-being outcomes linked to forest and non-forest diversification choices, through a systematic sample of 200 households around the Kilum-Ijim Forest Landscape (KIFL) of Cameroon. A composite household well-being index based on the Human Development Index approach, and the ordinary least …
Colonial hangover and institutional bricolage processes in forest use practices in Cameroon
Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Institutions and Processes
The ramification of Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis: Conceptual analysis of a looming “Complex Disaster Emergency”
One of Africa’s newest struggles for liberation: Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, which emerged from legal and education grievances in 2016, rapidly escalated into a secessionist political conflict that is threatening the unity of the country, with potential to degenerate into a complex emergency. In an exploratory, qualitative, analytical, and descriptive case study research tradition involving document/content analysis, we apply the Robert Strauss…
Farm-based climate adaptation dynamics: Insights from the vegetable sector in the Western Highlands of Cameroon
Agro-based climate adaptation has gained traction in scholarly and policy circles, albeit with limited comprehensive empirical evidence on the pathways of crop sector-specific adaptation approaches in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). To stem this knowledge gap, this study examines the evolution of farm-based climate adaptation practices in the vegetable subsector of Cameroon’s western highlands. Specifically, we (i) explore the different adaptation prac…
Nexus approach and environmental resource governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is replete with significant environmental resources including forests, water, land, and energy; although its transition to a bio-resource economy is yet to be actualized. Consequently, there are limited socio-economic gains from resource valorization. These challenges which stall progress towards the attainment of several interlinked sustainable development goals, are rooted, among others in resource governance defects. F…
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events
Extreme events, such as those caused by climate change, economic or geopolitical shocks, and pest or disease epidemics, threaten global food security. The complexity of causation, as well as the myriad ways that an event, or a sequence of events, creates cascading and systemic impacts, poses significant challenges to food systems research and policy alike. To identify priority food security risks and research opportunities, we asked experts from …
Forest management institutions and actor-centered conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary realities and future avenues for research and policy
Covid-19 and food security risk in Nkambe Cameroon: Perceptions, drivers and household response measures
Covid-19 impact on agriculture and food security in Africa. A systematic review and meta-analysis
Africa’s Energy Availability-Deficiency Paradox: Lessons from Small-scale Biogas Technology and Policy Implications
The energy crisis associated with energy poverty in Africa continues to keep millions of men, women and children in absolute poverty due to inadequate access to clean energy. Despite its widely recognised importance for sustainable development, theoretical and policy discourses have largely remained dormant with respect to the role that the paradox of energy deficiency plays in the underdevelopment of Africa. This study illustrates how the exploi…
Nonprofit commercialization: What shapes the perceptions of top managers
Business‐like thinking among NPOs and scholars has stimulated growing but contested views on what constitutes commercialization and what drives its adoption. Unfortunately, empirical efforts have largely neglected the perspective of nonprofit managers who play pivotal roles in commercialization decisions. To stem this knowledge gap, this study applies a mixed methods on a case study from Cameroon to elicit top nonprofit managers' perceptions to c…
Missing” power features in the Actor-Centered-Power framework: Systematic review and empirical insights from Central Africa's Dja and Faro Landscapes
Infrastructure development and community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa: A structural equation modeling – based contribution from Cameroon
Infrastructure development’s contribution to community wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is largely unknown. Existing scholarship over-represents externally funded projects, sidelining micro-level initiatives. Empirical studies hardly apply Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approaches that estimate wellbeing as a composite function of infrastructure development. We review the topical literature on infrastructure development and community wel…
Rural livelihood strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review on Cameroon
Rural populations often rely on diverse and complex livelihood strategies to survive. However, existing studies predominantly emphasize diversification, overlooking other critical strategies such as intensification and extensification. A comprehensive examination of rural livelihood strategies is crucial for informing pro-poor policy decisions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where poverty remains widespread. This study conducts a syste…
Institutional jelling in socio-ecological systems: Towards a novel theoretical construct
Institutional dynamics trigger resource management decisions and practices around socio-ecological systems (SESs), with (sub-) optimal management outcomes. For instance, studies show that formal institutions are continually prioritized over informal ones in land use decisions – the latter also countervailing the former in several instances. This reality presents an opportunity to theorize in favour of a new institutional arrangement that blends f…
Do Conflicts Influence the Accumulation of Bonding, Bridging, and Linking Social Capital? Insights From Cameroon
Social capital is known to influence livelihoods, but how this operates in conflict situations is relatively under‐researched. Leaning on the social capital theory, we investigate the association between conflict and the dynamics of bonding, bridging and linking social capital in the neglected “Anglophone” conflict between a separatist movement and the government of Cameroon, which impacts livelihoods and social relations. Using data generated th…
Economics (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works)