Preparing for, coping with and bouncing back after shocks. A nuanced resilience assessment for smallholder farms and farmers in Northern Ghana
In this study, researchers build on existing work on farm and farmer diversity in Duko, Northern Ghana, to systematically investigate and describe intra- and inter-household differences in terms of the vulnerability to prevalent shocks. They then continue investigating whether local farms and farmers have different strategies and capacities to recover with and without adopting project-proposed technologies for sustainable agricultural intensification.
The model results indicate that the drought shock would most severely affect all farm types, drastically reducing their operating profits and soil organic matter balance. The medium resource endowed farm was most affected by shocks, but all farm types could enhance their capacity to recover by adopting technology packages for sustainable intensification.