Building climate resilience of the agriculture sector in Ghana through improved climate information and early warning services

The project aims to build climate resilience in Ghana's agriculture sector by establishing a national framework for drought management, enhancing technical capacities for climate observation and modelling, and improving the delivery of decision-support services to vulnerable farming communities. It targets 2.7 million direct beneficiaries and seeks to address critical gaps in institutional coordination and technical forecasting.

• Ghana's agricultural sector is highly vulnerable to climate change, with over 80% of disasters in the country classified as climate-related. Smallholder farmers, who provide 80% of domestic agricultural production, have low adaptive capacity and are particularly susceptible to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability.
• Climate projections for Ghana indicate significant temperature increases—approximately 2.8 °C by 2055 and 4.5 °C by 2085—and a projected 4.5% decrease in overall rainfall by 2040. These trends are expected to reduce yields for staple crops, with maize potentially decreasing by 7% by 2020 and cassava by 30% by 2080.
• Ghana currently lacks the institutional and technical capacity for proactive drought management. A review indicated that the capacity for disseminating and forecasting flood and drought information within responsible organisations is 'low to very low', scoring 3 out of 10.
• The proposed project is structured into three components: creating national institutional and policy frameworks for drought coordination; transforming technical capacities for observation and prediction via a web-based data portal and decision-support services (DSS); and building the capacity of local farming communities to use this information for climate-resilient practices.
• The project expects to directly benefit 2.7 million people (approximately 9% of the population), specifically crop farmers, and indirectly benefit 14.7 million people within crop farming households.
• The total indicative cost of the project is USD 11 million, with USD 10 million requested as a grant from the Green Climate Fund and USD 1 million in in-kind co-financing from various Ghanaian ministries and UNEP-DHI.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). Building climate resilience of the agriculture sector in Ghana through improved climate information and early warning services. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/21410-building-climate-resilience-agriculture-sector-ghana-through-improved-climate-information-and.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Building climate resilience of the agriculture sector in Ghana through improved climate information and early warning services. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/21410-building-climate-resilience-agriculture-sector-ghana-through-improved-climate-information-and.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019building, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Building climate resilience of the agriculture sector in Ghana through improved climate information and early warning services}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = may, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/21410-building-climate-resilience-agriculture-sector-ghana-through-improved-climate-information-and.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }