EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON LAND SUITABILITY FOR SURFACE IRRIGATION AND SHALLOW GROUNDWATER POTENTIAL IN GHANA


Abeyou Wale Worqlul1, Yihun Dile Taddele2, Jaehak Jeong3, Zenebe Adimassu4, Nicole Lefore5, Thomas Gerik1, Raghavan Srinivasan6 and Neville Clark7, (1)Blackland Research Center, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, TX, United States, (2)Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Texas A&M University AgriLife Research, Temple, United States, (4)The International Water Management Institute, Accra, Ghana, (5)International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Pretoria, South Africa, (6)Texas A&M University, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Agrilife Research, College Station, United States, (7)The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, College Station, TX, United States