Small-holder farmers’ climate change adaptation practices in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Kumasi, Tyhra Carolyn; Antwi‐Agyei, Philip; Obiri‐Danso, Kwasi

doi:10.1007/s10668-017-0062-2

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“…Numerous authors have recommended strategies to reverse the above, such as farmers diversifying in the dry season, for example, beekeeping, rearing livestock, weaving, and dry season gardening [33]. Instead of the temporal rural-urban migration in search for non-existent jobs, the sale of fuel, wood, and charcoal could be considered to be diversification adaptation strategies for their livelihoods, as suggested by Kumasi, Antwi-Agyei, and Obiri-Danso [32]. The reviewed literature above on the effects of drought in Africa depicts anecdotal information that is not supported or validated by empirical evidence.…”

Section: Drought Influences On Food Insecurity In Africamentioning

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Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Ngcamu

Chari

2020

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African countries continue to be prone to drought, caused mainly by unfavorable weather patterns and climatic variations which have an adverse impact on rural households and agricultural production. This literature review article accounted for the aforesaid drawbacks and attempted to assess the effect of drought on food insecurity in African countries. This article further sought to dissect the resilience and climate change adaptation strategies applied by African countries to mitigate the adverse effects of drought on food insecurity in rural livelihoods. The hermeneutic framework was adopted in this study, where the secondary data sources were searched from credible bibliographic and multidisciplinary databases and organizational websites. Thereafter, it was classified, mapped, and critically assessed using the qualitative data analysis software NVivo to generate patterns and themes. The NVivo program is a qualitative data analysis software package produced by QSR International and which helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze, and find insights in qualitative data; for example, in journal articles where multilayered analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. This article has the potential to contribute in theory, concept, policy, and practice regarding best practices, resilience, and climate change adaptation strategies that can be harnessed by rural people. Furthermore, this article has the potential to shed light on the role played by traditional leadership and policy improvements in ensuring there is sufficient food during periods of drought.

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Section: Drought Influences On Food Insecurity In Africamentioning

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Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

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Chari

2020

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“…2019, 8, 214 4 of 19 to destroy household resources and make migration more difficult with the attendant risk of trapped populations (Geddes et al 2012a(Geddes et al , p. 1079. Past studies (Koubi et al 2016) and recent ones (Kumasi et al 2019) show that most people prefer to stay and deal with the environmental problem by implementing adaptation techniques, especially when faced with slow-onset, longer-term environmental events. Food and resources have political roots rather than climate impacts (Gemenne et al 2014).…”

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“…Where slow onset environmental change occurs, poor individual, day laborers and temporary workers may be trapped because they do not have resources and capacity to migrate (Koubi et al 2016, p. 11). Results from the upper east region of Ghana shows that farmers adapt to climate change under agriculture, water management, communal pooling, and livelihood diversification techniques (Kumasi et al 2019) The study of environmental violence provides a framework that we can understand a form of structural violence, in which most of the violence occurs from economic powers doing everything they can to justify and maintain a global system that unequally privileges them (Lee 2016). The inadequate reactions of the Assad regime to existing political, economic, and ethical tensions, to the drought to the rural-to-urban migration, and to the initial, legitimate protests were the principal drivers of the conflict (Ide 2018).…”

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Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Ebrahimi

Ossewaarde

2019

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Policy experts play an important role in coping with the climate change–human migration nexus. They offer expert solutions to decision makers, and thus, they contribute to de-politicizing the issue. The aim of this paper is to find out how different policy experts envision the climate change–human migration nexus. The Netherlands has been nominated as the seat of a Global Center of Excellence for climate Adaptation and aims to become a Global Center of Excellence in the water safety and security domain. Policy experts were selected based on a structured nominee process. We conducted semistructured interviews with policy experts and analyzed policy expert documentation. Interview transcripts and documents were examined via a coding frame. Unlike policymakers who link climate change and conflict, policy experts stress the economic and political factors of migration in which climate change issues happen. The major difference between the view of policymakers and policy experts on the link between climate change and human migration emerges from the frame of the climate refugee. In the context of the climate change–human migration nexus, policy experts act as a countervailing power that prevents the political exploitation of the nexus into a security issue.

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“…Although we have gained some general ideas about local adaptation strategies among farmers, other studies found that climate change adaptation actions varied partly due to socio-economic factors and geographical locations [8], [9]. Regional adaptation actions can be effective when adaptation policies better incorporate the adaptive capacity of a farmer or farming community [1], [10]- [12].…”

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Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Adaptation Capacity to Climate Change in the Bawku Zone of Ghana

Zakaria¹,

Matsui²

2020

IJESD

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This paper assesses smallholder rainfed rice farmers' adaptive capacity and strategies to climate change in the Upper East Region of Ghana. We conducted the questionnaire survey to understand how these farmers coped with climate change hazards. Most respondents reported to have used some adaptation strategies, such as using improved rice varieties, early planting, field bunding and rice transplanting. We also found that 68% of the respondents had medium adaptive capacity with seasonal and unsustainable alternative income sources. This finding at least partially explains why off-farm jobs in the area are not available and why 50% of the respondents had offered farm labor services as their alternative income source. We further demonstrate that smallholder rice farmers in the study area were vulnerable to several socio-economic challenges such as weak asset base and inadequate institutional and governmental support. These challenges threatened their ability to adapt to more intensive climate change impacts in the future.

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Small-holder farmers’ climate change adaptation practices in the Upper East Region of Ghana

Cited by 67 publications

References 34 publications

Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus

Smallholder Rice Farmers’ Adaptation Capacity to Climate Change in the Bawku Zone of Ghana

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