Abstract
Climate change risks are wide spread, and they are transforming the socio-environmental infrastructure of economic development. Using the case of farming communities in Eastern Ghana, this study addresses the questions: which climate risks confront farmers, what are farmers’ adaptation choices, and which adaptation strategies are sustainable and why? Farmers use range of adaptation strategies to minimize climate risks. Nevertheless, some strategies do not sustain the anticipated positive outcomes. Choices of adaptation strategies were skewed towards advancing general income, and poorly promoted healthy ecological systems. Farmers’ choices of climate strategies were based on, among others, personal intuition or historical experience, knowledge of strategies, and availability of resources to implement strategy: sustainability measures weakly influenced selections. Qualities of successful initiatives were low cost strategy, economic equity, and flexibility to precipitation and temperature. A climate adaptation strategy can be sustainable if it is less costly to establish and flexible to adapt across places and seasons.
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Climate, Change, Sustainability, Ghana
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