Smallholder farmers' perceptions and adaptive response to climate variability and climate change in southern rural Ghana.
This paper assesses the perception and adaptation strategies employed by smallholder farmers to abate the effect of climate variability. Using a mixed method cross-sectional research approach on smallholder farmers in the Bosomtwe district, 152 farmer respondents were sampled from 12 communities by...
| Publicado en: | Cogent Social Sciences Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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