How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
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Date
2021
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Springer
Abstract
his study investigated land tenure potential to influence farmers’ adaptive responses to climate
change. A quantitative approach was employed to
determine how crop farmers’ farmland tenure arrangements influence their adaptive responses to climate
change impacts in the Lawra District of semi-arid
north western Ghana. Field data were gathered from
248 farming households between January and May,
2017 through a multi-stage sampling procedure.
About 55.2%, 45.6%, 44.4%, 80.6% and 64.5% of
the farmers adopted early maturing crop varieties, zai
farming techniques, agroforestry, crop rotation and
adjustment in planting dates respectively as adaptive
choices to the impacts of climate change. Binary
logistic regression models showed that farmland size,
years of land occupancy or usage, method of land
acquisition and perceived level of farmland tenure
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Research Article
Keywords
Land tenure arrangements, Land tenure rights, Adaptive responses, Semi-arid Ghana, Climate variability and change