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Climate Change Impact on Smallholder Farmers in the White Volta Basin of the Upper East Region of Ghana

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In this paper we use the TOA-MD model to test climate change impacts and adaptation strategies with socioeconomic, survey data from the upper White Volta Basin of Ghana. Combining simu-lated and expected crop and livestock yields under three different climate scenarios, the econom-ic impact of climate change to 2050 is analysed. We find that livelihood outcome variables like income and poverty levels as well as adoption rates are sensitive to the different climate scenari-os. Most particularly, introducing an intensive and extended (I&E) irrigation technology as a climate change adaptation strategy offsets some negative climate change impacts and improves income but not poverty rates in the area. The results are useful in providing spatiotemporarily-specific policy recommendations on the potential impacts of climate change and the economic outcomes associated with different adaptation strategies.

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  • Amikuzuno, Joseph, 2013. "Climate Change Impact on Smallholder Farmers in the White Volta Basin of the Upper East Region of Ghana," 2013 Fourth International Conference, September 22-25, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia 160478, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaae13:160478
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.160478
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    1. Nana Yamoah, A.-A., 2018. "Who Benefits, Who Loses and What can be done? - An Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Climate Change with and without Adaptation on Smallholder Farmers in Ghana," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277224, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Raymond van Der Wijngaart & John Helming & Claire Jacobs & Pedro Andres Garzon Delvaux & Steven Hoek & Sergio Gomez y Paloma, 2019. "Irrigation and irrigated agriculture potential in the Sahel: The case of the Niger river basin: Prospective review of the potential and constraints in a changing climate," JRC Research Reports JRC108657, Joint Research Centre.

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