Designing an integrated agri-ecotourism training center for rural communities in Ghana and Ethiopia.
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The combination of agricultural components with tourism has many benefits for rural communities. It helps to increase biodiversity on a farm setup, and it allows consumers to engage in activities, events, and services that have been provided for recreational, entertainment, or educational purposes on the farm or agribusiness operation. In this way, both farmers and visitors are able to experience, learn and participate in various activities of agriculture, natural resource conservation, and the promotion of biodiversity and cultural heritage of a community. In addition, the economic, social, and cultural benefits that agri-ecotourism provides for consumers and rural communities offer enlightenment for consumers or future farmers with more options and a broader view of farming, which in turn promotes farming diversification and rural development (Dooley, 2010). Farmers who are considering adding integrated agri-ecotourism to their farming operations can expect several advantages as integrated agri-ecotourism will diversify their current operations, thereby spreading risk over a larger number of enterprises. This could help improve the survival rate of operations during hardship, such as a drought (Lombard, 2020). The purpose of this investigation of integrated agri-ecotourism was to develop a structural model design that helps to promote biodiversification that considers economic factors, the community and the people living in it. The development of agri-ecotourism as a business, however, depends on the level of its management and the evaluation of the impact of various management decisions on economic, environmental, and social sustainability in the rural communities of Ghana and Ethiopia.
La combinaciĆ³n de componentes agrĆcolas con el turismo tiene muchos beneficios para las comunidades rurales. Al hacerlo, esto ayuda a aumentar la biodiversidad en la configuraciĆ³n de una granja, tambiĆ©n permite a los consumidores participar en actividades, eventos y servicios que se han brindado con fines recreativos, de entretenimiento o educativos, en la granja o en la operaciĆ³n de agronegocios, para permitir a agricultores y visitantes experimentar, aprender y participar en diversas actividades de agricultura, conservaciĆ³n de recursos naturales y promociĆ³n de la biodiversidad y el patrimonio cultural de una comunidad. Los beneficios econĆ³micos, sociales y culturales que el agro-ecoturismo proporciona a los consumidores y las comunidades rurales ofrecen iluminaciĆ³n a los consumidores o futuros agricultores con mĆ”s opciones y una visiĆ³n mĆ”s amplia de la agricultura, lo que a su vez promueve la diversificaciĆ³n agrĆcola y el desarrollo rural (Dooley, 2010). Los agricultores que estĆ”n considerando agregar el agro-ecoturismo integrado a sus operaciones agrĆcolas pueden esperar varias ventajas, ya que el agro-ecoturismo integrado diversificarĆ” sus operaciones actuales, distribuyendo asĆ el riesgo entre un mayor nĆŗmero de empresas. Esto podrĆa ayudar a mejorar la tasa de supervivencia de las operaciones durante situaciones difĆciles, como una sequĆa (Lombard, 2020). El propĆ³sito del agro-ecoturismo integrado es desarrollar un diseƱo de modelo estructural para el desarrollo sostenible considerando lo econĆ³mico, la comunidad y las personas que viven en Ć©l. Sin embargo, el desarrollo del agro-ecoturismo como negocio depende del nivel de su gestiĆ³n y la evaluaciĆ³n del impacto de diversas decisiones de gestiĆ³n sobre la sostenibilidad econĆ³mica, ambiental y social en las comunidades rurales de Ghana y EtiopĆa.