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标题：Climate Change Impact on Smallholder Farmers in the White Volta Basin of the Upper East Region of Ghana
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作者：Amikuzuno, Joseph
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2013
期号：Suppl
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：In this paper we use the TOA-MD model to test climate change impacts and adaptation strategies with socioeconomic, survey data from the upper White Volta Basin of Ghana. Combining simu-lated and expected crop and livestock yields under three different climate scenarios, the econom-ic impact of climate change to 2050 is analysed. We find that livelihood outcome variables like income and poverty levels as well as adoption rates are sensitive to the different climate scenari-os. Most particularly, introducing an intensive and extended (I&E) irrigation technology as a climate change adaptation strategy offsets some negative climate change impacts and improves income but not poverty rates in the area. The results are useful in providing spatiotemporarily-specific policy recommendations on the potential impacts of climate change and the economic outcomes associated with different adaptation strategies.
关键词：adaptation;climate change;Ghana;White Volta basin