Journal
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 32, Issue -, Pages 40-56Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.03.003
Keywords
Climate change; Resilience; Vulnerability; Multiple stressors; Gender; Local knowledge
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- International Development Research Centre, Canada [106690-99906075-013]
- Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada
- University of Western Ontario
- Land Deals Politics Initiative
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This paper investigates the relative importance of climate change in the context of multiple stressors in semi-arid Ghana. It draws upon ethnographic research in two agrarian villages, and integrates theories from resilience, vulnerability and feminist political ecology. The findings empirically demonstrate that many farmers do not worry about climate change, even in situations where local perceptions and the climate data show a clear pattern of variability. Additionally, the paper provides evidence of a 'gendered double exposure,' whereby patriarchy and local culture shape how different social groups are impacted by climate change. Overall, the emerging findings suggest that an overemphasis on scenario-based climate change impacts may detract attention from equally important non-climatic factors that loom large in people's lives. The article's central argument is not meant to downplay the ongoing impacts of climate change in Africa. It rather suggests that climate change should be addressed as one problem among many socio-ecological challenges facing smallholder farmers. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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