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DOI	10.1007/s10668-021-02056-x
	Credit access and perceived climate change resilience of smallholder farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana
	Batung, Evans Sumabe; Mohammed, Kamaldeen; Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri; Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson; Luginaah, Isaac
通讯作者	Batung, ES (corresponding author)，Univ Western Ontario, Dept Geog & Environm, 1151 Richmond St, Richmond, ON, Canada.
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN	1387-585X
EISSN	1573-2975
出版年	2022-01
英文摘要	While climate change is a global phenomenon, it has significantly stifled agricultural productivity in the Global South due to changes of key atmospheric elements including extreme temperatures and unpredictable rainfall over the last fifty years. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in sub-Saharan Africa where rainfed agriculture is the dominant livelihood strategy, climate change is increasingly undermining rural livelihoods. Despite several policy efforts to improve climate adaptation in this context, smallholders' lack of access to credit constitutes one of the crucial dimensions of climatic vulnerability. Using an ordered logistic regression model, this study analyzed data from a cross-sectional survey (n = 1,100) in the Upper West Region to examine the relationship between smallholder farmers' access to credit and their perceived climate change resilience. Findings show that households with access to credit from informal sources were more likely (OR = 1.73, p <= 0.05) to report good resilience compared to those without access. Households that received remittances were also more likely (OR = 3.26, p <= 0.001) to report good resilience compared to non-receiving households. Further, households that did not rear any livestock surprisingly emerged more likely (OR = 2.00, p <= 0.001) to report good resilience compared to those that reared livestock. On the contrary, households that had experienced any climatic events in the past 12 months before the study were less likely (OR = 0.29, p <= 0.01) to report good resilience compared to households that did not experience any events. These findings highlight the potential contribution of informal credit sources to improving rural agricultural productivity and climate change resilience. Informal credit sources may be capable of providing smallholder farmers with the needed access to more flexible financial credit options. The study provides policy recommendations on what might be useful to vulnerable groups, and others in similar contexts.
英文关键词	Resilience Climate change Credit access Smallholder farmers Ghana
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000747105500003
WOS关键词	UPPER WEST REGION ; FOOD SECURITY ; AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION ; PERCEPTIONS ; HOUSEHOLDS ; SAVANNA ; DROUGHT ; DETERMINANTS ; VARIABILITY ; REMITTANCES
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/377077
作者单位	[Batung, Evans Sumabe; Mohammed, Kamaldeen; Luginaah, Isaac] Univ Western Ontario, Dept Geog & Environm, 1151 Richmond St, Richmond, ON, Canada; [Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri] George Washington Univ, Dept Geog, 2121 1 St NW, Washington, DC 20052 USA; [Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson] Univ Denver, Dept Geog & Environm, 2050 East Iliff Ave, Denver, CO 80210 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Batung, Evans Sumabe,Mohammed, Kamaldeen,Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri,et al. Credit access and perceived climate change resilience of smallholder farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana[J],2022.
APA	Batung, Evans Sumabe,Mohammed, Kamaldeen,Kansanga, Moses Mosonsieyiri,Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson,&Luginaah, Isaac.(2022).Credit access and perceived climate change resilience of smallholder farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana.ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY.
MLA	Batung, Evans Sumabe,et al."Credit access and perceived climate change resilience of smallholder farmers in semi-arid northern Ghana".ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY (2022).