Balikisu Osman

Balikisu Osman
York University · Faculty of Environmental Studies

PhD Candidate

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Introduction
I am currently working on my doctoral research project exploring climate risks and households' responses to food insecurity in northern Ghana
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Climate change causes gendered impacts everywhere: extreme weather events, warming cities, melting sea ice and permafrost, ice storms, floods, droughts, and fires related to climate change are directly and indirectly causing widespread economic and social impacts. Gender violence accompanies the socio-economic disruptions linked to climate change....
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Ghana's climate has changed over the past decades, with an increase in annual temperature by 1 °C and a decrease in rainfall by 2.4% per decade since 1960. These changes have increased the probability of extreme events and posed significant risks for agricultural livelihoods in the semiarid regions of Ghana. Coping and adaptation strategies represe...
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Agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is challenged by risks that are rooted at several but interlinked levels – production, markets and macro/policy environments. In Mozambique and Uganda, endemics of pest and disease are frequent in the production and post-harvest months due to inadequate use of proper inputs and poor storage facil...
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This publication builds on the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) recent regional workshop on “Building capacities to empower farmers to manage risks at farm level: lessons from experience” held in Lusaka, Zambia on December 12, 2018. This publication reflects on the outcomes of the event to provide an in-depth analysis and discussion...
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This article describes and provides a livelihood analysis of a fictional five-member Karamojong family, using the DFID1 model. It concludes that livelihoods of poor rural households are explicitly complex and implicitly diverse, and, therefore, proposes a combination of possible support options that can be provided to help the poor to live a sustai...
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The concept of development and its measurement is by far, one of the hotly contested topics in development literature (UNDP, 1990; Stanton, 2007). Its complexity is illustrated in the endless succession of ideas and slogans in post-war discussions of the term. Although apparently expressed as “economic growth” (World Bank, 1990, p. iii), “good chan...
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The object of this paper is to ascertain the level of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) compliance of mining companies in selected mining communities in Ghana. Over the past three decades, Ghana has demonstrated considerable commitment to the conservation and management of bio-physical and socio-cultural environment. Laws and regulations have b...
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The objective of this paper is to espouse sustainability dimensions of human appropriation of ecosystems services in Ghana. This objective underpins the scientific arguments throughout this paper. Ghana abounds in natural resources. The exploitation of these resources has not been done without reservation. The increasing demand on land ecosystems s...

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