ghana climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessment

over a longer period. With the risk spread over two crops, a smallholder can take advantage of a long growingseason during a year of above average precipitation. In the savanna zones, farming systems have beenmodified from shifting cultivation to a combination of compound and bush fallow systems. Compoundcropping involves intensively cropping fields around the compound house with vegetables, millet, guineacorn, maize, cowpea, tobacco, and melons. These fields are kept fertile with household compost and livestockmanure. The next zone of short-fallow fields are rarely fertilized and grow millet, guinea corn, andgroundnuts (EPA 2008). The surrounding area may have upland or lowland bush fallow fields for growingyams and other staples or communal land for grazing. Crop residues from the bush fallow are the mainsource of livestock feed in the dry season (Bationo and Ntare 2000).GHANA CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION ASSESSMENT 61