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Water Scarcity Under a Changing Climate in Ghana: Options for livelihoods adaptation

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  • Benjamin Apraku Gyampoh
  • Monica Idinoba
  • Steve Amisah

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The effects of climate change and variability on water availability in Ghana is being felt throughout the country. Coping with water scarcity has become a major issue. Most communities in the Offin River basin are rural with no pipe-borne water, and consist predominantly of farmers who depend on irrigation for their crops. The basin provides the communities with water for drinking, and for other economic activities. Benjamin Apraku Gyampoh, Monica Idinoba and Steve Amisah look at livelihood options to cope with water scarcity as the climate situation worsens in the coming years. Development (2008) 51, 415–417. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.46

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  • Benjamin Apraku Gyampoh & Monica Idinoba & Steve Amisah, 2008. "Water Scarcity Under a Changing Climate in Ghana: Options for livelihoods adaptation," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 51(3), pages 415-417, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:develp:v:51:y:2008:i:3:p:415-417
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    1. Sun, Yan & Asante, Felix & Birner, Regina, 2010. "Opportunities and challenges of community-based rural drinking water supplies: An analysis of water and sanitation committees in Ghana," IFPRI discussion papers 1026, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    2. Denis Jean Sonwa & Mfochivé Oumarou Farikou & Gapia Martial & Fiyo Losembe Félix, 2020. "Living under a Fluctuating Climate and a Drying Congo Basin," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-22, April.
    3. Service Opare, 2017. "Practising the past in the present: using Ghanaian indigenous methods for water quality determination in the contemporary era," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 19(6), pages 2217-2236, December.
    4. John FitzGibbon & Kenneth O. Mensah, 2012. "Climate Change as a Wicked Problem," SAGE Open, , vol. 2(2), pages 21582440124, May.
    5. Asprilla-Echeverria, John, 2024. "How do farmers adapt to water scarcity? Evidence from field experiments," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 297(C).

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