Samenvatting

The impact of drought on developing country like Ghana cannot be underestimated most importantly if Ghana as nation wants to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 which are aimed at reducing extreme hunger and poverty by 2030. The study was aimed at identifying the coping strategies used by farmers in Worubogu to respond to drought in the Tolon district of Northern of Ghana. There was lack of knowledge as to how farming households were coping to reduce drought vulnerability. Hence the study was aimed at identifying their coping strategies and why they used the kind of coping strategies in the area. The findings is to be used by government through the ministry of food and agriculture (MoFA) to help design programmes and policies to help reduce drought vulnerability in of farmers.