Climate change perception, adaptation strategies, and constraints amongst urban farmers in Anambra Metropolis, Nigeria

Olumba, Cynthia N.; Ihemezie, Eberechukwu Johnpaul; Olumba, Chukwudi C.

doi:10.1080/17565529.2023.2221685

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“…The result supported the findings of Esiobu et al [15,16], who reported that extension contact improves farmers' access to recent information and expertise of contemporary farming techniques to raise their yield, income and standard of living. The average experience in farming was 16 years.…”

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How Do Arable Crop Farmers’ Adapt to Climate Change? New Evidence from Nigeria

Chima,

Success,

Sander

et al. 2024

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In Nigeria, climate change is not a new phenomenon and arable crop production is vulnerable to climate change. Arable crop farmers have always responded to climate change with local strategies believed to be climate-smart. Arable crop farmers' knowledge of climate change is an important step in understanding any action to be taken to reduce its effect. However, empirical studies on the link between climate change and crop farmers’ adaptation strategies are still relatively scanty in the area. This presents a dearth in research. Therefore, our paper examined how arable crop farmers adapt to climate change using cross-sectional data obtained through a structured focused group discussion and questionnaire from 120 arable farmers across critical farming communities in Imo State, Nigeria. We utilized multistage and purposive sampling procedure in the selection of arable crop farmers. The reason we utilized purposive sampling procedure was to select areas with high intensity of arable crop farmers and farming. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistical tools and mean (x̄) score analysis. Our result shows that the mean age was 42.00 years. Greater proportions (73.00%) were female. The average farm size was 1.45 hectares. Vegetables (100.00%), maize (99.17%), cassava (98.33%) and rice (96.67%) were among the crops produced in the area. The result confirmed the incidence of climate change in the area and farmers perceived rightly the direction of the change, which includes declining crop yields (x̄ = 3.00; σ = 0.50), increased in new pests and diseases infestation (x̄= 2.88; σ = 0.58); unstable decrease and increase in temperature and rainfall (x̄=3.63, σ = 0.83) among others. Our study further shows that the major climate change adaptation measures farmers practiced were diversification of livelihood (99.17%) and changing planting/harvesting dates (97.50%). Farmers identified inadequate information (99.17) and inadequate climate change adaptation fund (98.33%) among others as the barriers they faced in adapting to climate change in the area. We recommend that, since arable crop farmers are members of cooperatives, they are encouraged to take advantage of their strength to collectively project a common demand in obtaining funds and other necessary inputs in adapting to climate change in the area. Finally, our study also suggests that the agricultural extension service system should be strengthened so as to provide farmers with stable and right early warning signs which will be critical in minimizing risks of climatic threats in the area.

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Section: Socio-economic Characteristics Of Arable Crop Farmerssupporting

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How Do Arable Crop Farmers’ Adapt to Climate Change? New Evidence from Nigeria

Chima,

Success,

Sander

et al. 2024

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“…Past studies have demonstrated that SLM practices including minimum tillage, land fallowing, terracing, agroforestry, and crop residue management are important for enhancing the water retention capacity of agricultural soils, reducing soil nutrient losses from erosion, increasing land productivity, and ultimately improving household food security [6,7]. Moreover, other studies show that many SLM practices such as mulching, farmyard manure and contour cropping, are important strategies to adapt agricultural systems to the negative impacts of climate change [8,9].…”

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Time Preferences, Land Tenure Security, and the Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Southeast Nigeria

Olumba,

Garrod,

Areal

2024

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Sustainable land management (SLM) practices are important for tackling agricultural land degradation. This study investigates the association between farmers’ time preferences and their adoption of SLM practices (agroforestry, terracing, and land fallow practices) with intertemporal benefits, and further documents the moderating role of land tenure security in this relationship. The analysis in the paper is based on data from a survey of 480 farmers in south-east Nigeria, complemented by semi-structured interviews. Farmers’ time preferences were elicited using both a survey and experiments with hypothetical payouts. Land tenure was conceptualised as a composite concept to suit the legally pluralistic context of the study area. This study found that many of the sampled farmers have high discount rates. The result further shows that farmers’ time preferences are negatively associated with their adoption of agroforestry and land fallow practices. Moreover, the result shows that both legal and de facto tenure security encourage the adoption of SLM practices. Other factors influencing the adoption of SLM practices include gender, household size, education, credit constraints, marital status, risk attitude, farming experience, and farm characteristics (e.g., erosion problems and steepness of slope). Furthermore, this study found that the security-enhancing effect of land tenure security (de facto) can alleviate the negative influence of time preferences on farmers’ adoption of SLM practices. The findings suggest that farmers with higher discount rates, who have secure tenure rights to land, are more likely to adopt SLM practices, compared to similar farmers without tenure security.

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“…The study area, Nnewi, is an urban center in Southeast Nigeria with significant industrial, agricultural, and residential activities [8] . The town is home to many medium scale industrial clusters in Southeastern Nigeria [9] that produces automobile, petrochemicals, metals, paints, electric wires, cables, car battery, vegetable oil, soap, plastic tanks, and animal feeds [10] , [11] .…”

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Evaluating the human health risks of heavy metal contamination in copper and steel factory effluents in Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria

Ugwu,

Igbokwe,

Suru

et al. 2024

Toxicology Reports

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Climate change perception, adaptation strategies, and constraints amongst urban farmers in Anambra Metropolis, Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

How Do Arable Crop Farmers’ Adapt to Climate Change? New Evidence from Nigeria

How Do Arable Crop Farmers’ Adapt to Climate Change? New Evidence from Nigeria

Time Preferences, Land Tenure Security, and the Adoption of Sustainable Land Management Practices in Southeast Nigeria

Evaluating the human health risks of heavy metal contamination in copper and steel factory effluents in Nnewi, Anambra State, Nigeria

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