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DOI	10.1080/23311932.2023.2247166
	Effect of climate variability adaptation strategies on maize yield in the Cape Coast Municipality, Ghana
	Ankrah, Daniel; Okyere, Charles; Mensah, Jojo; Okata, Emmanuel
通讯作者	Ankrah, D
来源期刊	COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE
ISSN	2331-1932
出版年	2023
卷号	9 期号:1
英文摘要	Maize is a major staple produced by most peasant farmers in Ghana, amidst climate variabilities that potentially thwart the attainment of global sustainable development goals (SDGs), specifically SDG -2 of zero hunger. Ordinarily, one expects the extant literature to be replete on a nexus between climate variability adaptation strategies and maize yields. Ironically, there appears to be scant information on the expected nexus in Ghana's coastal areas. The dual questions about what adaptation strategies significantly affect maize yield, and the extent (magnitude) to which climate variability strategies affect maize yield beg answering. Inspired by these research questions, the objective of this article is to examine the effect of climate variability adaptation strategies on maize yield. This study relies on a cross-sectional data covering 197 smallholder maize farmers in the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly of Ghana's Central Region. The study is deeply rooted in a quantitative approach employing multiple linear regression and a treatment effect model (inverse probability weighted regression adjustment-IPWRA). Our findings reveal that adaptation strategies correlate with maize yields. Specifically, estimates from the IPWRA show that irrigation and changes in planting dates positively correlate with maize yields. The implication is that these adaptation strategies improve maize yields. Smallholder farmers are encouraged to adopt effective climate variability adaptation strategies to minimize the adverse risks associated with climate variability. The government of Ghana's initiative for arid regions, dubbed as the one village one dam initiative can be upscaled to southern Ghana to ensure sustainable agricultural development.
英文关键词	smallholder farmers non-arid space climate crisis crop yield
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:001047859600001
WOS关键词	CHANGE IMPACTS ; FOOD SECURITY ; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY ; SMALLHOLDER FARMERS ; WATER CONSERVATION ; PLANTING DATE ; OPTIONS ; AGRICULTURE ; PERCEPTIONS ; SOIL
WOS类目	Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/395786
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ankrah, Daniel,Okyere, Charles,Mensah, Jojo,et al. Effect of climate variability adaptation strategies on maize yield in the Cape Coast Municipality, Ghana[J],2023,9(1).
APA	Ankrah, Daniel,Okyere, Charles,Mensah, Jojo,&Okata, Emmanuel.(2023).Effect of climate variability adaptation strategies on maize yield in the Cape Coast Municipality, Ghana.COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE,9(1).
MLA	Ankrah, Daniel,et al."Effect of climate variability adaptation strategies on maize yield in the Cape Coast Municipality, Ghana".COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE 9.1(2023).