[World Bank Blogs] Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to Ghanaian agriculture. It reduces the predictability of rainfall, increases temperatures, and lengthens the duration of dry periods. A lack of access to irrigation stifles the resilience of agriculture in Ghana. The country possesses substantial irrigation potential: with estimates of irrigable land spanning from 360,000 to 1.9 million hectares although less than 3% of cultivated land is irrigated. A lack of access to irrigation stifles the resilience of agriculture in Ghana. Consequently, farmers bear the brunt of shifting weather patterns and extreme events as the farming system is predominantly rain-fed.