Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Effect of climate change adaptation options on monthly food shortages among smallholder farmers in West Africa

Author(s):

Abayomi Samuel Oyekale

Recieved Date: 2013-07-16, Accepted Date: 2013-09-10

Abstract:

Climate change is among the topmost economic development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper analysed the effect of rural households’ adaptation options on monthly food shortages. The data were collected with multi-stage sampling by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) as a baseline survey to provide comparable data on the impact of climate change in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal using multi-stage sampling method. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Poisson regression model. Results show that reported erratic and less overall rainfalls mostly affected peanut, although in Burkina Faso and Mali, sorghum and millet were most affected. The farmers were making some changes on their farming systems with 15.94% introducing new crops in Senegal, 23.57% tested new crops in Niger and 81.43% grew high yielding varieties in Ghana. Drought resistant varieties were grown by 20.71% of the farmers from Burkina Faso, 17.86% of those from Ghana and 12.06% of those from Mali. The results of Poisson regression revealed that the data were adequately fitted judging from statistical insignificance of the deviance goodness of fit (p>0.10). Specifically, more involvement of men in raw food production, late planting of crops, number of months households depended on home production, residence in Mali and Senegal reduced the count of monthly food shortages, while introduction of stone lines, residence in Ghana and more involvement of men in timber production increased it (p<0.05). It was concluded that adequate adaptation will assist farmers to mitigate the impact of climate change on food security.

Keywords:

Climate change, adaptation, food insecurity, poisson regression, West Africa

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Journal: Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment
Year: 2013
Volume: 11
Issue: 3&4
Category: Environment
Pages: 1986-1993

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