Responding to harvest failure: Understanding farmers coping strategies in the semi-arid Northern Ghana.

ABSTRACT: Farmers coping strategies against harvest failures have implication for future adaptation to such shocks. Previous studies on farmers' vulnerability and response to shocks have emphasized on adaptation, at the expense of their coping to such shocks. Using a survey data from 299 farm households in northern Ghana, this study has analyzed farmers' coping strategies against harvest failure, and the drivers of the choice and intensity of the coping strategies. The empirical results show that most of the households used liquidation of productive assets, reduction in consumption, borrowing from family and friends, diversification of livelihoods, and migration to cities for off-farm jobs as coping measures in response to harvest failure. The empirical results from a multivariate probit model indic

SUBMITTER: Boansi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10104303 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature