The influence of climate change perception, experience and emotions on youths’ participation in agriculture and agribusiness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21792107 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Asare-Nuamah (0000-0002-3122-909X, University of Bonn, corresponding author), Ebo Botchway (0000-0002-9506-495X, KU Leuven), Nicholas Junior Nuamah (University of Environment and Sustainable Development), Mavis Anane-Aboagye (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 699-708 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Climate and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17565529.2024.2448180 |
| OpenAlex | W4406017507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 52 |
Promoting youths’ participation in agriculture and agribusiness in Africa is a policy priority among many of the continent’s governments and development partners. Yet, such policy priority can be hampered due to the severe impacts of climate extremes on the agriculture sector. The overarching objective of this study is to understand how the continent’s climate vulnerability affects youth’s decision to participate in agriculture and agribusiness. The study specifically assesses climate change perceptions among 511 Ghanaian youth and how their perceptions, climate change experience and emotions influence their agriculture and agribusiness participation decision. The results indicate that 76.7% of youth are willing to participate in agriculture and agribusiness amidst having gender-differentiated positive and negative climate perceptions. Negative and positive climate perceptions significantly influence youth’s decision to participate in agriculture and agribusiness. Similarly, experiencing floods, droughts, rainfall variability and rising temperature do not negatively influence youth participation decision. Again, the results show a strong association between climate emotions and participation decision. Furthermore, gender, participation in capacity-building training, being a member of farmer-based organizations and having families and friends engaged in agriculture/agribusiness positively influence participation decision. The results have significant policy implications, which are teased out and discussed
Agribusiness · Agriculture · Business · Climate change · Economics · Geography · Perception · Political science · Socioeconomics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |