The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana
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2024
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Climate and Development
Abstract
Carbon farming has recently been advocated for as a climate change and variability mitigation and/or
adaptation strategy in global agriculture. In this study, we address an important research question of
whether carbon farming training can improve household resilience capacity as well as food security
by employing internationally standardized indicators. Household resilience capacity and its
components are measured using the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)’s resilience capacity
index while the food security measures used include household and child food insecurity experience
scale (FIES and CFIES), food consumption score (FCS) and household dietary diversity score (HDDS).
We relied on doubly robust treatment effect estimators to account for potential selection bias and
heterogeneity. We find that carbon farming training has no statistically significant effect on overall
household resilience capacity. However, we find a large and statistically significant effect on key
components of resilience (specifically, access to basic services, assets and social safety nets) and a
marginal improvement in adaptive capacity. We also find statistically significant effect on FCS and
HDDS but not for the other food security indicators (FIES and CFIES). Overall, the results suggest that
agricultural training programs, particularly climate change adaptation capacity building initiatives,
could improve important welfare measures in developing countries.
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Carbon farming, biochar, compost, capacity building
Citation
Charles Yaw Okyere, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Collins Asante Addo & Lukas Kornher (19 Apr 2024): The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2024.2342682Charles Yaw Okyere, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Collins Asante Addo & Lukas Kornher (19 Apr 2024): The effect of carbon farming training on food security and development resilience in Northern Ghana, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2024.2342682