nor invest in rainfed agriculture.The limited assets and entitlements exposes communities to further risk and reduces their ability to cope to the impact of climate variability. The results support the findings of Antwi-Agyei et al. (2012) study of the ten regions of Ghana using different indicators which showed the three regions in northern Ghana as most vulnerable to drought. With limited livelihood diversification in the regions, many rural household have embraced migration as an adaptive strategy
(UER) and 1035.4mm (UWR) as shown in table II. In spite of the seemingly high rainfall amount recorded in NR over the period, the region showed the highest variability with coefficient of variation (CV) =0.21. The Upper East Region also showed a similar variation in rainfall amount (CV = 0.20). The analysis showed considerable levels of variability in rainfall pattern in all the regions. Such condition may create uncertainty in water availability to crops, and thus pose significant risk to crop production
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