Effects of climate change and coping strategies among crop farmers in South West, Nigeria

Repositioning Nigeria’s Agricultural Extension System Towards Building Climate Change Resilience

“…Global change in climate is expected to give rise to an increase in rainfall variability. A decrease in rainfall with its attendant higher atmospheric requirements due to elevated temperatures will shorten the LGP (Adebayo and Oruonye, 2012;Adesiji et al, 2013;Ethan, 2015;Okunlola et al, 2018;Operinde and Okogbue, 2018).…”

“…Scenario thinking is frequently used in building business structure and military strategies, solving the complex global problem, and the development of the non-profit sector (Nautilus Institute, 2007). Okunlola et al, 2018 has recognized the important need for scenario approaches towards evaluating climate change resilience options. In doing this, the system must ascertain the level of awareness of rural farmers about the climate change resilience challenges, dialogue with the clientele (farmers) on complications involved, and aggregate their resilience ideas.…”