Climate Change

Our Climate Change programs aims to improve food security by working towards climate resilient farming systems which increase productivity under changing climatic circumstances, while reducing food waste and losses throughout the supply chain.

We invest in the implementation of climate change adaptation and related productivity improvements that further propose a market-based approach to implementation and promote inclusive business models that demonstrate deliberate efforts to engage youth and women among the targeted farmers in the promotion of climate smart agriculture.

The impacts of climate change effects on livelihoods, food and water security, ecosystems, infrastructure etc. differ per regions in Ghana as well as community and individual, with gender a particularly important vulnerability factor. Our programs aims to give insight in the climate change effects and impacts in Ghana, with particular attention for food security and water. It also sheds light on the policies, priorities and commitments of the government in responding to climate change and important climate-relevant activities that are being implemented.

Smallholder farmers (especially female-headed farming households) in Ghana are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and variability due to the compounding impacts on yield from poor lateritic soils, limited irrigation, and limited transport to markets. They are hampered in their adaptive capacity to climate change due to various factors, including inaccessibility of financial resources, a lack of information and technology, and unfavorable land tenure systems.

Our programs uses a market system approach to transform and reorient agricultural systems to the new realities of climate change.