Behavior Change Approaches in the Cropping Calendar: A Transformative Tool for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ghana

CGIAR and partners in Ghana are using a climate-smart cropping calendar to help farmers make timely, informed decisions. At a recent Kumasi workshop, they refined the tool to boost behavior change and climate resilience in smallholder agriculture.

As climate variability intensifies and agricultural systems grow more complex, the imperative to bridge scientific research with real-time, actionable farmer insights becomes increasingly urgent. The cropping calendar, as showcased in our recent stakeholder workshop in Kumasi (see workshop highlights), represents a bold and innovative step toward embedding behavior change science within a technically robust, farmer-responsive decision-support tool. This brief outlines the behavior change strategies that underpin the system’s success, and the science-based refinements needed to accelerate its adoption and impact.