Abstract

Evidences of deleterious effects of climate change on livelihoods, environment and society have widely been documented. The extent of these impacts depends largely on perceptions, awareness and responses adopted by farmers. The concept of climate-smart agriculture calls for integrated approach to transform and reorient agricultural systems in improving livelihoods. This study evaluates effects of climate change responses on food security among vegetable farming households. Structured interview schedule was employed to collect data from 73 households in selected administrative assemblies. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis. Living poverty index and household food insecurity access scale were also estimated. The findings revealed climate change having negative effects on vegetable production right from nursery through transplanting to agronomic and post-harvest handling. Most climate-smart agriculture adopted by farmers were planting at multiple locations, changing planting dates, crop diversification, use of certified planting materials, and selling of fresh vegetable. Most farmers were practicing amalgamations of climate-smart agricultural to reduce the negative effects of climate change on their livelihoods. More than three-quarters of the vegetable farming households were food secure. Farmers who practice more climate-smart agriculture tend to be more food secure than their counterparts. Other factors which had positive association with food security were living poverty indices, education, household size, experience and total land size. To sustain livelihoods by increasing productivity and incomes, farmers should integrate climate-smart strategies that will improve resilience and coping capacity against the uncertainties of climate change impacts.

Presenters

Selorm Akaba
Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Central, Ghana

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Assessing Impacts in Divergent Ecosystems

KEYWORDS

Resilience, Diversification, Sustainable Agriculture

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