Effective Adaptation Options to Climate Change Impacts in Ghana : For present and possible future climate impacts

ISBN-13: 9783659145704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 276 str.

Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng; Edwin Gyasi; Samuel Adiku

Opis

Located in low latitude tropical region and a developing country with an agricultural driven economy, Ghana is already experiencing the consequent effects of global climate change. This book assesses current climate tends in a local climate level in Ghana, followed by an examination of the possible future resulting from human induced global climate change, impacts on maize production and effective adaptation options that would suit future climate change. Though local communities have observed current changes in climate, one may reasonably ask whether Ghanaian farmers can continue to sustain their livelihood in the same way that they have done for generations. To the skeptics current change is just one of the changes in historical records, but it is left to Ghana and Africa to decide whether written thoughts and current climate observations will heal itself, or it is time for circumspection and caution which will require effective adaptation options to withstand future climate change impacts.

O autorze

Dr. Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng is Lloyd African Scholar of University of Oxford and START African Climate Change Doctoral Fellow, Universty of Cape Town. He is currently a Senior Programme Officer of EPA, Ghana and UNFCCC National Focal Point on Article 6. He is blessed with a wife, Lydis Hackman (Mrs) and four childern: Fosuah, Obenewaah, Asuah and Aso