A5017486901- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Agricultural pest management studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Climate variability and models
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
2015-2024
University of Science and Technology
2022-2024
Kwame Nkrumah University
2012-2023
University of Leeds
2010-2014
The importance of extension services in helping smallholder farmers to address the many challenges agricultural production cannot be over-emphasized. However, relatively few studies have been conducted that investigate how capacities agents can built more effectively assist managing climate risks and impacts. As change is a key threat food production, addressing this issue increasingly important. This paper aims identify Ghana better support navigating effects on production. It asks: (i)...
How climate change adaptation practices can constrain development and deliver maladaptive outcomes in vulnerability hotspots is yet to be explored in-depth using case study analyses. This paper explores the effects of coping responses three villages across Central Gonja district northern Ghana. The addresses following research questions: i) What are key climatic non-climatic stressors confronting households Ghanaian communities? ii) adapting stressors? iii) these on development? employs a...
Despite the international significance attached to climate change adaptation, there remains a lack of understanding barriers that impede effective implementation adaptation strategies by households across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Better vulnerability agriculture-dependent variability requires exploration constrain strategies. This paper uses case studies from northeast Ghana and systematic literature review assess restrict adaptations in SSA. Results suggest are constrained financial...
Abstract The vulnerability of social-ecological systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to climate variability and change means that there is an urgent need better integrate weather information into societal decision-making processes. Long-term adaptation these regions has received increasing attention, with recent initiatives aiming increase resilience at timescales years decades. Less focus been given short-term information. However, users are principally interested shorter (hours seasons)...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2015 Paris Agreement are two of most important policy frameworks twenty-first century. However, alignment national commitments linked to them has not yet been analysed for West African states. Such analyses vital avoid perverse outcomes if states assess targets develop SDG implementation plans, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) under Agreement, without integrated planning cross-sectoral alignment. This article provides a situation...
Evidence on how coping practices for immediate climate variations can transform into long-term adaptive capacity are relatively limited. This study addressed this gap by identifying the short-term and adaptation measures used smallholder farmers to address future change in northeast Ghana. The paper a mixed-methods approach, including household surveys, focus group discussions key informant interviews. Data were collected from 555 households located six communities across three districts...
Agriculture in Ghana is vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate variability. This poses a challenge food security across country. Despite this vulnerability, limited research has been conducted understand effect variability on yields staple crops Ghana. study assessed selected (millet, sorghum, rice, groundnut and maize). The used Mann-Kendall trend test multiple regression analysis assess how (in annual rainfall, onset, cessation, number dry days temperature) affected five districts...
Empirical evidence on the opportunities and barriers to uptake of climate services by smallholder farmers for resilient agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. This paper addresses this important gap evaluating information (from short-term weather forecasts, through seasonal forecasts longer-term change decadal timescales) Sudan savannah agro-ecological zone Ghana. The answers following research questions: i) what kinds are available accessible management decision-making? ii)...
This paper examined the prioritized climate-smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers, motivations of adopting practices, enablers to successful adoption and barriers in transitional savannah agroecological zones Ghana. Specifically, we employed ethnographic research using participatory approaches, including two stakeholder workshops household surveys with 1061 households The Weighted Average Index (WAI) Problem Confrontation (PCI) were used rank farmers’ perceived affecting...
Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices are crucial in managing climatic shocks faced by smallholder farmers sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence on the socio-psychological drivers of farmers’ adoption CSA remains limited. This study employed Theory Planned Behavior framework to analyze intention and behavior toward rural Ghana. The sampled 350 from Upper East North-East Regions Ghana Structural Equation Model understand practices. Results showed that attitudes (notably their beneficial...
Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are confronted with climatic and non-climatic stressors. Research attention has focused on stressors, such as rainfall variability, few empirical studies exploring stressors how these interact at multiple scales to affect food security livelihoods. This focus factors restricts understanding of the combinations that exacerbate vulnerability farming households hampers development holistic climate change adaptation policies. study addresses this...
Access to useful climate information is critical for adaptation needs of African smallholder farmers, yet empirical studies documenting the socioeconomic, environmental and household predictors access willingness pay services from a gendered perspective have been limited date. This paper addresses this research need by identifying farmers in north-eastern Ghana, "vulnerability hotspot" where slight changes rainfall often result considerable yield losses. The study uses data collected 193...
This paper explored the extent to which awareness of climate change affects choice adaptation practice by smallholder pineapple farmers. study used a cross-sectional data collected from 150 farmers in Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality, Ghana. We applied Latent Class Analysis (LCA) identify sub-population based on their levels and socioeconomic characteristics. then multinomial logistic regression examine differences influence choices. Results indicated that, are well aware perceived changes...
Climate smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted by governments and international development institutions as an intervention to address climate change deliver triple wins. Yet, the trade-offs synergies associated with CSA practices have not explored. This study develops composite indices for prioritizing better inform policy about their trade-offs, acceptability. The aim of this was examine smallholder farmers' uptake practices, drivers such benefits (positive negative) on agriculture,...
The use of mosquito coils has gained widespread patronage in malaria-endemic countries, even though it is not a recommended preventive measure for avoiding mosquitoes. Mosquito contain insecticides, which are expected to vaporize slowly once the coil lit, provide protection against mosquito. base material contains variety compounds capable burning gradually release insecticide. smoke, however, potentially source indoor air pollution with implications acute respiratory infections (ARI) and...
Abstract Rain‐fed agriculture is predominantly the primary source of livelihood in sub‐Saharan Africa. In Ghana, it employs over 60% population and contributes to about 30% Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite relevance rain‐fed socioe‐conomic development country, studies investigating impacts climate variability on crop yield region are limited. This prevents growth relevant policy frameworks address threats posed by production. As a contribution guide planning food security present study...
Whilst the capability of climate services to reduce impacts is alluring, empirical evidence on how best mainstream information in Africa lacking. This paper determines have been incorporated into national policies by Anglophone West African states for building agricultural resilience and provides a detailed analysis issues facing Ghanaian systems. The addresses questions: (i) what extent change recognised as threat development states? (ii) regional policy frameworks resilient systems? (iii)...