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Climate Smart Agriculture Practices in Semi-arid Northern Ghana: Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods

机译：半干旱北部加纳的气候智能农业实践：对可持续生计的影响

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Achieving food security and livelihood development among vulnerable households in the semi-arid regions is challenged by water scarcity and climate change. To alleviate the challenges of water scarcity and climate change impacts, farmers are adopting different climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices. However, there is limited knowledge on the contribution of CSA practices to livelihoods of farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana. Therefore, this paper explored CSA practices adopted by smallholder farmers and assessed the contribution of dry season farming to livelihoods in rural semi-arid Ghana. Using data from 100 households, farm income, household food security and subjective wellbeing (SWB) were compared between dry season farmers and non-dry season ones. The findings showed that socio-economic factors hindered the utilisation of practices with high start-up cost such as rain water harvesting. Farmers also adopted other practices based on the benefits, ease of use and geographical context. Comparing dry season farmers and non-dry season ones, the results showed that dry season farming had great potentials of improving income, food security (66%) and wellbeing (P>0.01) of rural households in semi-arid Ghana. However, adopting CSA practices only without instituting programmes to address other socio-economic challenges faced by smallholder farmers will yield minimal impacts. Complementing CSA initiatives with poverty alleviation programmes will effectively contribute to improved livelihoods in resource poor communities.
机译：缺水和气候变化对半干旱地区脆弱家庭的粮食安全和生计发展带来了挑战。为了缓解水资源短缺和气候变化影响的挑战，农民正在采用不同的气候智能农业（CSA）做法。然而，对加纳北部半干旱地区的CSA做法对农民生计的贡献知之甚少。因此，本文探讨了小农户采用的CSA做法，并评估了旱季农业对加纳农村半干旱地区生计的贡献。使用来自100个家庭的数据，比较了旱季农民和非旱季农民的农场收入，家庭粮食安全和主观幸福感（SWB）。调查结果表明，社会经济因素阻碍了雨水收集等启动成本高昂的实践的使用。农民还根据收益，易用性和地理环境采取了其他做法。将旱季农民和非旱季农民进行比较，结果表明，旱季农业在提高半干旱加纳农村家庭的收入，粮食安全（66％）和福祉（P> 0.01）方面具有巨大潜力。但是，仅采用CSA做法而不制定解决小农户面临的其他社会经济挑战的计划，所产生的影响将很小。通过减贫方案补充南南合作举措，将有效促进资源贫乏社区的生计改善。

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