Browsing by Author "Dambeebo, Daniel"

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Assessment of vulnerability and climate risks in WA City Region with special focus on urban-rural linkages
(2018) Dambeebo, Daniel
Climate change has become a development issue globally, with developing and emerging economies bearing the highest impact. This is due to inadequate resources, poor infrastructure, weak institutions and systems, which are prerequisites for preparedness, mitigation and adaptation efforts. The phenomenon is complicated as resources meant for development is drawn to fight the impact of climate change. Empirical evidence shows that, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America would more likely endure the highest impact. This study assessed vulnerability and climate risks at the local level, particularly threats to livelihood security, internal migration and how urban-rural linkages exacerbate these issues. The study further sought answers to the state of awareness of climate change impact, how poverty and inadequate education are contributing to climate vulnerability in the study region. Further, what institutions are doing, in the form of governance to enhance resilience and mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change. The study adopted a mixed approach in the design encompassing both elements of qualitative and quantitative approaches respectively. About 185 households, both in the city and within the hinterland were surveyed for responses. Institutions, which are at play within the study region, whose governance style and structure has implications on climate issues, were interviewed. Women groups were also made an integral part of the study because of their less representation in the household leadership structure within the study location. This was conducted in the form of a Focus Group Discussions. The study revealed that, closed to half of the population were not abreast with issues surrounding climate change. They had less or no information regarding the phenomenon. It further discovered that, smallholder farmers within the hinterland had their livelihoods threatened by climate change impact. This happened through pest and diseases on livestock, erratic rainfall pattern, inadequate arable lands and conflicting use of resources between the urban dwellers and smallholder farmers within the hinterland. One of the resulting consequences has been internal migration. Institutional governance is weak, and woefully inadequate. The author strongly recommends that, government and its development partners must formulate and design appropriate policies, programs, and projects that are founded on proper needs assessment with communities onboard.
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Navigating complexities towards sustainable food crops production : local practices for climate change adaptation in rural Ghana
(2022) Dambeebo, Daniel; Dakyaga, Francis; Derbile, Emmanuel K.
Globally, food crops production has been challenged by the impacts of climate change. Climate change scholars have argued that rural dwellers, particularly smallholder farmers who engage in food crops production, suffer the most due to their low capacity to adapt. A growing body of knowledge also suggests that local practices serve as safeguards, that enable smallholder farmers to lessen their vulnerability in food crops production. However, limited scholarly insight has been advanced about sustainable food production via the use of local practices. Through the mixed research approach, the study contributes to local practices and climate adaptation debates by examining the various local practices of smallholder farmers, the challenges they encounter with the use of such practices and the possibility for sustainable food crops production in the future in Ghana. The findings suggest that smallholders encounter multiple drawbacks in attempt to utilize local practices to adapt food crops production to climate change including the advent of modern farming inputs/practices. Even when multiple local practices (the planting of multiple crops’ varieties, switching between crops and livestock rearing, reducing cultivatable land size) are utilized, only the increment in farm size, the use of income/remittances of rural–urban migrants to support food crops production, and early cultivation offered some possibilities of sustaining improvement in food crops production for the future. Therefore, the study concluded that local practices are not necessarily panaceas for sustaining food crops production under climate change. The study recommended that further studies pay attention to the sustainability of local practices under climate change.