Increased availability of water for agriculture, domestic, energy and industrial purposes. Especially, as agriculture is climatedependent and thus susceptible to climate change, it is very urgent to prepare adaptation measures against climate change. Ghana national climate change adaptation strategy nccas. Ghana vi climate services report impact assessment on climate information services for communitybased adaptation to climate change ghana country report executive summary changes in annual rainfall amounts and seasonal rain and temperature patterns are experienced by many communities in northeastern ghana. In this report, we use climate models, crop models, and economic models to evaluate the impact of climate change at 50kilometer resolution inside. This study addresses the effect of climate changing on food crop in ghana between 2001 and 2010. Climate variability and climate change impacts on smallholder. Projected impact of climate change on yields of corn, wheat, soybeans and cotton by the years 20802099. The economic impact of climate change on agriculture in. Changes in climate have over the millenniums been driven by natural processes, and these mechanisms continue to cause change. Although the impacts of climate change and variability in ghana are considerable, present approaches to agricultural development do not adequately consider policies and planning, and management. This a problem that resulted from the emission of greenhouse gases that affect our environment. The above analysis is based on a ceteris paribus1 argument whereby the worlds population is seen not to respond to climate change. Climate change impacts on water supply and agricultural water management in californias western san joaquin valley, and potential adaptation strategies.
Assessing impacts and opportunities draft document 2 report authors and contributors executive summary 1. Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for guatemala. The impact of climate change on the agricultural sector. Climate change has a significant impact on agricultural systems as it affects both plant and animal health. Climate change can also exacerbate underlying problems that affect the. This work has never been presented either in whole or. Impact of climate variability on pineapple production in ghana. Northern ghana is more vulnerable to the volatile weather patterns caused by climate change than the rest of the country because it is poorer, drier and more heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture. The effects of climate change have been explored in the arkansas river basin in colorado which is. A growing global population and changing diets are driving up the demand for food. Modeling impact of climate change on water resources and agriculture demand in the volta basin and other basin systems in ghana barnabas a. Modeling the impact of carbon dioxide emission on cereal yield in ghana, authorsamuel asuamah yeboah and lawrence amponsah and glory kofi hoggar, year2015. Impact of climate change on agriculture in africa by 2030 article pdf available in scientific research and essays vol. Environmental impacts on ghana climate change impacts and migratory routes in ghana g cc n n volta nn cn brngn maor migration routes minor migration routes ainall ariaility rought loods ushires coastal erosion egend climate change mpacts and migratory outes in ghana.
One of the most important projects to mitigate climate change with agriculture and adapting agriculture to climate change at the same time, was launched in 2019 by the global evergreening alliance. Climate change, which is increasing the frequency of extreme weather events and making growing seasons less predictable, makes the challenge of increasing food production more difficult. Climate change and its impact on the livelihood of farmers and agricultural workers in ghana 2 1 introduction 1. Climate change as a term in common usage over much of the world is now taken to mean anthropogenically driven change in climate. Climate can be viewed as an integration of complex weather conditions averaged over a. This paper was funded by the gef and the world bank. Data used for this study are from both secondary and primary sources. Review of climate change and its effect on nigeria ecosystem olaniyi o. The findings suggest that there is a projected high temperature and low rainfall in the years 2020, 2050 and 2080. Climate change impact on ghanas agriculture agriculture. Pdf impact of climate change on maize production in. Climate change impacts on agriculture across africa. Implications for sustainable agriculture in northern ghana anslem bawayelaazaa nyuor 1, emmanuel donkor 2, robert aidoo 3, samuel saaka buah 1, jesse b. Effects of global climate change on nigerian agriculture.
Water availability, degree days, and the potential impact of climate change on irrigated agriculture in. The economic impact of climate change on agriculture in cameroon1 ernest l molua and cornelius m lambi2 1 an earlier version of this working paper was published as ceepa discussion paper number 17. The vulnerability of ghanas agriculture to climate change is largely due to its. National climate change adaptation strategy nccas all the more relevant. Impacts on agriculture and the policy implications. Climate change can have important effect on the water resources and water demand like urban and agriculture uses. Climate free fulltext climate change and variability. Climate change and its impact on the livelihood of farmers and. In ghana, agricultural production is expected to be negatively affected because of the projected changes in. We apply a structural ricardian model srm to farmlevel data from ghana in order to estimate the impact of climate change on crop production. Adaptation akuapem north climate change climate variability ghana. Pdf impact of climate change on agriculture in africa by. Economic impacts of climate change on cereal production.
Such climate change may influence agriculture in a positive way co 2 fertilization. The projected negative impacts of climate change will not only affect farmers crop yields and incomes, but also there will be flowon effects to the rest of the sectors in the economy as explained in the last paper the economic impacts of agricultural productivity losses due to climate change. National climatesmart agriculture and food security. Ghana climate change, agriculture and food security platform ccafs. Climate change and agriculture union of concerned scientists. Agriculture is considered as the largest main economic activities in africa and it.
The aims of this study were to assess the impact of. Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for. Predicting the impact of climate change on cocoa, cashew and cotton growing regions in ghana and cote divoire conducted by the international center for tropical agriculture ciat for the. The policy document national climatesmart agriculture and food security action plan of ghana 20162020 provides the implementation framework for an effective development of climatesmart agriculture in the ground. Csirsavanna agricultural research institute, po box 52, tamale, ghana. Climate variations have a considerable impact on crop production. The brief includes an overview and climate summary of ghana, as well as projected climate changes. Production is struggling to keep up as crop yields level. Climate change, land degradation and desertification are expected to affect african countries. Ghana, serving as a source of protein, food security, employment creation, economic growth and poverty reduction strategy. Weather information is one of the requirements for effective climate change adaptation in ghana where agriculture is the back bone of the economy. Therefore, it raises questions on whether the problem is caused by human activities or its just a part of natures cycle.
Keywords climate change impacts vulnerability subsaharan africa introduction africa has been identi. Climate change and security in africa 1 acknowledgements this deskbased report was produced with the financial support of the danish ministry of foreign affairs. In this paper we present estimates of the effect of climate change on ghana based on. Climate change will be a significant challenge to farmers in guatemala. Our mission is to serve as a climate change agriculture and food security exchange platform in ghana that will. Climate change impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation international food policy research institute washington, d. Here we present an overview of the impacts of climate change projected for the subsaharan region of the continent. The practices included in this manual have been drawn from the experience of cocoa farmers in each climate zone of ghana, from experts and stakeholders in. The nexus of weather extremes to agriculture production.
Impact of climate change on economic development in. Management manual for the production of high quality cassava flour. It was developed as a background document for the eighth informal nordicafrican foreign. Increased temperatures, especially in the number of extreme hot days, as well as changes in precipitation, are the main climatic variables affecting agriculture on the african continent.
Impact of climate change on agriculture futurelearn. Impact assessment on climate information services for. Moreover, agriculture contributes to the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. For us in ghana, it is our belief that if no action is taken to address the negative impacts of climate change now, the cost of doing it in future will be prohibitive and counterproductive to the socioeconomic gains we make today. The srm explicitly incorporates changes in farmers crop selection in response to variation in climate, a feature lacking in many existing models of climate change response in africa. In trying to raise standards of living for northern ghanaians, approaches that combine economic development in particular agricultural development, given the importance of agriculture to. Pineapple production plays a major role in ghana, primarily via socioeconomic impacts and the export economy. This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in ghana, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture, fisheries, water resources, energy and human health. Since 2006, using the outputs of the sectoral vulnerability and adaptation assessments carried out by national experts, an extensive network of.
Modeling impact of climate change on water resources and. Schroders the impact of climate change on the global economy 3 there is also an opportunity cost to be considered. Rosegrant, jawoo koo, richard robertson, timothy sulser. This will be done by building ghana s capacity in the area of infrastructure, knowledge to deal with climate change impacts and reduce vulnerability in key sectors, ecosystems, districts and regions of the country. Areas where yields are projected to decline warmer colors include some of our most important agricultural regions, such as the corn belt and californias central valley. G 1 this paper presents an empirical analysis of the effects of global warming on nigerian agriculture and estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change. The basic goal of the nccas is to increase ghana s resilience to climate change impacts now and in the future. In ghana, three critical physical effects of climate change identified. Pdf effects of climate changing on food crop production system in. For pineapple, variable temperatures and rainfall patterns are implicated, yet there is limited knowledge of the conditions and consequences of such variations. Climate change and its impact on the livelihood of farmers. Causes, effects, and solutions abstract climate change has become a widespread topic in recent years. Climate change is set to hit the agricultural sector adversely and cause considerable negative impacts particularly for smallholder farmers in ghana. Climate change is one of the challenges that human populations and the environment face.
Impact of climate change on agriculture as we learned in the previous step, agriculture is a major source of ghgs which contribute to the greenhouse effect and climate change. Amisigo 1, alyssa mccluskey 2 and richard swanson 3, 1 csirwater research institute, achimota, p. Predicting the impact of climate change on the cocoa. Program on climate change, agriculture and food security ccafs.
O3 1,3 joseph ayo babalola university, ikeji, arakeji, osun state 2 adeyemi college of education ondo abstract. However, the changing climate is having far reaching impacts on agricultural production, which are. Etwire, david fielding, viktoria kahui department of economics, po box 56, dunedin 9054, new zealand. Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale parry et al. Climatesmart agriculture csa is an integrated approach to managing landscapescropland, livestock, forests and fisheriesthat address the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change.
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