Barriers and adaptation strategies to climate change among farming households in Guinea Savanna
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Demba Aïssata Samoura
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-1975
Bolanle Wahab
Olalekan John Taiwo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9290-379X
Alpha Issaga Pallé Diallo
Ahmed Younis Ibrahim Younis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-7954
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-1975
Bolanle Wahab
Olalekan John Taiwo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9290-379X
Alpha Issaga Pallé Diallo
Ahmed Younis Ibrahim Younis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7989-7954
Abstract
Identifying appropriate climate policy interventions that improve the resilience of Guinea Savanna farming systems to extreme weather conditions is crucial to reducing food insecurity and poverty. This study explored rural farming households’ encountered adaptation barriers and strategies used toward climate change. Participatory research tools and methods were used to collect data, including household surveys, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and field observations. A multistage sampling procedure was employed in selecting 1,500 respondents in nine livelihood zones prone to drought and floods. Problem confrontation index (PCI) and relative importance index (RII) estimations were used to rank small-scale farmers’ climate adaptation barriers and strategies. Results showed that key barriers to successful climate change adaptation practices included limited access to farm inputs (PCI = 3203), poor access to agricultural machinery (PCI = 3161), and shortage of farm labour and its high cost (PCI = 3026), while the most prioritized adaptation strategies were crop diversification (RII = 0.59), planting early maturing crop varieties (RII = 0.47), and changing the timing of planting (RII = 0.42). This study provides decision-makers insights into farmers’ most adaptation barriers and prioritized strategies toward climate change to design effective and context-specific policies that aim to improve farming resilience to the adverse effects of changing climate.
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Adaptation, Barriers, Climate change, Resilient farming, Strategies
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Umunnakwe, V. C. & Olajide-Adedamola, F. O. (2015). Socio-personal correlates of participation in livelihood activities among rural youth in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, India. Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech., 5(1), 28–35. doi:10.3329/ijarit.v5i1.24584
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Van Niekerk, D., Coetzee, C. & Nemakonde, L. (2020). Implementing the Sendai Framework in Africa: Progress Against the Targets (2015-2018). International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 11(2), 179–189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00266-x
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Barriers and adaptation strategies to climate change among farming households in Guinea Savanna. (2022). Journal of Applied and Natural Science, 14(3), 702-710. https://doi.org/10.31018/jans.v14i3.3493
