Urbanization, agricultural land use change and livelihood adaptation strategies in peri-urban Wa, Ghana

With urbanization posing serious livelihood challenges to households living in the peri-urban areas, this study seeks to examine the livelihood options/strategies available to peri-urban dwellers in the Wa Municipality who depend on agriculture for their livelihood using concurrent embedded mixed methods research design to study 394 randomly selected residents in four (4) of ten (10) peri-urban communities.