Climate change and agrobiodiversity loss are real and farmers are adapting using traditional
indigenous strategies as well as strategies introduced by research. This research was in two
components; climate change and agrobiodiversity loss. The livelihood vulnerability index and
multinomial logit regression were used to measure the level of vulnerability and determine the
factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies.
The results indicate that Upper West Region is the most vulnerable. Timing of the onset of the
rainy season, soil and plant health related strategies are found to be the most important climate
related strategies. The factors that influence the choice of indigenous climate related strategies
are found to be formal education, presence of a market, informal credit, farmer-to-farmer
extension, among others. The factors that influence the adoption of a climate related strategy
introduced by research were found to be sex, age, farm size, income from crop sales, access to
formal agricultural extension and so on. Farmer to farmer extension was seen to increase the
likelihood of adoption of production and marketing practices, but reduce the tendency of
adopting off-farm activities. While age positively influences adoption of soil conservation
technologies, it is negatively associated with tree planting and integrated crop management