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Western Africa

Western Africa

Climate change is a reality in West Africa[1]. Water availability is a particular risk, with extreme events such as drought related to humanitarian crises associated with periodic famines, food insecurity, population displacement, migration and conflict and insecurity. Adaptation strategies can be environmental, cultural/agronomic and economic[2].

Adaptation strategies are evident in the agriculture sector, some of which are developed or promoted by formal research or experimental stations[3]. Indigenous agricultural adaptations observed in northern Ghana are crop-related, soil-related or involve cultural practices.[4][5] Livestock-based agricultural adaptations include indigenous strategies such as adjusting quantities of feed to feed livestock, storing enough feed during the abundant period to be fed to livestock during the lean season, treating wounds with solution of certain barks of trees, and keeping local breeds which are already adapted to the climate of northern Ghana.[6]; and livestock production technologies to include breeding, health, feed/nutrition and housing.[7]

The choice and adoption of adaptation strategies is variously contingent on demographic factors such as the household size, age, gender and education of the household head; economic factors such as income source; farm size; knowledge of adaptation options; and expectation of future prospects[8][9].