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Accepted Paper:
Investigation of on-farm climate change adaptation outcomes of small-scale crops farmers in the Garu-Tempane district of Ghana
Benjamin Jabik
(Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre)
Simon Bawakyillenuo
(University of Ghana)
The risks and impacts of climate change are of significant concern because of its linkage to food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Although a number of studies have been conducted on climate change adaptation in Ghana, there still exists a gap on the outcomes of on-farm climate change adaptation approaches to small-scale farmer. Investigating the outcomes of on-farm climate change adaptation approaches by small-scale farmers in two categories of communities (planned and autonomous) quantitatively, this study fills the gap mentioned above. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and yield prediction among two categories of farmers of which eight types of climate change adaptation approaches were common, it was established that, overall, the planned category of farmers are more likely to adopt multiple adaptation approaches than the autonomous farmers. Also, the same category of farmers are more likely to have higher yield as compared to their counterparts in the autonomous category. The study recommends a more integrative programming approaches for any planned climate change adaptation initiative so as to integrate the autonomous approaches in any planned climate change adaptation model.