Adaptation to climate change or non-climatic stressors in semi-arid regions? Evidence of gender differentiation in three agrarian districts of Ghana

Ahmed, Abubakari; Lawson, Elaine; Mensah, Adelina; Gordon, Chris; Padgham, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2016.08.002

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“…Across contexts, be it in India or Ghana, while agriculture is increasingly feminized in terms of women's labour contributions, this has not resulted in increased access to productive resources -land, credit or technology. Often excluded from extension and training opportunities, such as the use of machinery or fertilizers, provided both by the public and private sectors, women remain subsistence producers (Ahmed, Lawson, Mensah, Gordon, & Padgham, 2016). At the same time, gender wage gaps persist even in casual agricultural wage work, with women agricultural wage labourers paid about half of male wage rates (Mhaskar, 2010;Rao, 2012;Whitehead, 2009).…”

Section: Access To and Control Over Resources And Assets: The Importamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Families are forced to live across multiple locations in order to survive (field notes: Nitya Rao, July 2016). In Ghana too, the institutionalization of resources have posed restrictions on women's livelihoods, given that access now requires bureaucratic permissions (Ahmed et al, 2016).…”

Section: Access To and Control Over Resources And Assets: The Importamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the level of policy and practice, what emerges is a move towards a landscape approach to adaptation strategies, rather than either group or resource-based interventions (Ahmed et al, 2016;Batterbury, 2001). This will enable policy responses to address a host of interconnected issues in terms of barriers and enablers within a particular landscape.…”

Section: Collective Action Voice and Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging and on-going research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities' adaptive capacity largely fail to recognize the gendered nature of everyday realities and experiences. This paper interrogates some of the emerging evidence in selected semi-arid countries of Africa and Asia from a gender perspective, using water scarcity as an illustrative example. It emphasizes the importance of moving beyond the counting of numbers of men and women to unpacking relations of power, of inclusion and exclusion in decision-making, and challenging cultural beliefs that have denied equal opportunities and rights to differently positioned people, especially those at the bottom of economic and social hierarchies. Such an approach would make policy and practice more relevant to people's differentiated needs and responses.

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“…As an analytical framework, gender analysis encompasses information on males and females in terms of their roles, responsibilities, access to and control of resources, and opportunities, as well as hidden power structures that govern the relationships between them [31]. It could also include social variables such as ethnicity, social class, and age [19]. Gender constructions in most societies tend to influence the access of males and females to critical resources necessary for their development, leading to gendered vulnerabilities.…”

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“…These have focused on the gender dimensions of climate change vulnerabilities [18], the adaptation strategies adopted by farm households [15,19] to counter the adverse impacts of climate change, and the importance of adaptation strategies [5]. Mostly overlooked is whether gender influences the perceived effectiveness of adaptation practices, preferences for institutional support for adaptation, and the sources of these institutional supports.…”

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Abstract:The negative impacts of climate change on agriculture could erode gains made toward gender equality in Ghana. Much of the literature on gender dimensions of climate change adaptation has focused on assessing differences in coping and adaptation practices of smallholder farmers. Mostly overlooked is whether gender influences influenced perception of effectiveness of adaptation practices and preferences for institutional support for future adaptation. Using key informant interviews, household surveys, and focus group discussions, we address these gaps by exploring coping and adaptation measures adopted by heads of farm households to counter climate change impacts on their livelihood activities and household well-being in the Guinea Savanna agroecological zone in Ghana. Additionally, we assessed the preferred institutional adaptation support of heads of farm households in adapting to future projected impacts. We find that female heads of farm households relied mainly on borrowed money from village savings and loans group as a coping measure; male heads of farm households depended primarily on sales of livestock. Varying planting and harvesting dates, crop diversification, and use of improved crop varieties were the major adaptation strategies adopted by farmers. We argue that provision of dams and/or dugouts, postharvest processing facilities, adaptation capacity-building resources, and improved access to markets and credit could enhance the adaptive capacity of male and female heads of farm households to mitigate projected climate change impacts on their livelihood activities and household well-being.

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Determinants of climate information service access and use among smallholder farmers in Bereh woreda, Ethiopia

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Climate information service (CIS) is a key component of a climate adaptation strategy which is expected to lessen climate risk. Access and uses of CIS among the local community are limited and constrained by various factors and are not supported by empirical research evidence. Therefore, the study analyzed CIS access and use determinants among smallholder farmers in Bereh Woreda. The study applied a cross‐sectional design with a mixed methodological approach. Data were collected through a survey of 219 smallholder farmer households, three focused‐group discussions (FGDs), and six key informant interviews (KII). The collected survey data were analyzed using the Heck‐probit model to determine factors influencing smallholder farmers’ access and use of CIS. The Heck‐probit model results showed that the determinants of CIS access and use had a statistical significance of log‐likelihood at 1% (Wald Chi‐square = 45.2, P = 0.001), indicating a high explanatory power. The selection model revealed that age and off‐farm income significantly reduced the likelihood of accessing CIS, whereas; mobile ownership and male‐headed households increased the likelihood of accessing it. Age, female‐headed households and farm size had decreased the likelihood of using CIS, whereas mixed farming, radio ownership and access to herbicide enhanced the likelihood of utilizing it. This study, therefore, recommends intensive awareness creation and improving the delivery of diverse and reliable CIS to enhance agricultural productivity and smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change impacts.

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Adaptation to climate change or non-climatic stressors in semi-arid regions? Evidence of gender differentiation in three agrarian districts of Ghana

Cited by 97 publications

References 32 publications

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Coping with and Adapting to Climate Change: A Gender Perspective from Smallholder Farming in Ghana

Determinants of climate information service access and use among smallholder farmers in Bereh woreda, Ethiopia

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