Impact of Climate Change Adaptation on Household Food Security in Nigeria—A Difference-in-Difference Approach

Ogunpaimo, Oyinlola Rafiat; Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab; Surajudeen, Jolaosho

doi:10.3390/su13031444

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“…This positive impact of adaptation of these strategies to climate change on household income and food security is supported by the findings of recent studies [60,61].…”

Section: Impact Of Adaptation Strategies On Household Income and Food...mentioning

confidence: 52%

Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Impacts on Household Income and Food Security: Evidence from Sahelian Region of Niger

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Sahelian countries, particularly Niger, are more vulnerable to climate change due to the high dependence of most of their populations on rain-fed agriculture and limited capacities to respond to climate variability and change. This paper examines the factors influencing climate change adaptation strategies and the impacts on household income and food security in rural Niger. For this purpose, we collected data from 1783 valid rural households in four main agricultural regions of Niger. The results showed that crop diversification (72.74%), income diversification (67.97%) and changing planting times (55%) are the main adaptation strategies adopted by households. The majority of respondents had noticed changes in rain patterns (93.21%), in the amount of rain (91.25%) and in the intensity of rain (81.82%) during the last five years. We categorized these adaptation strategies into six major groups namely climate-resilient crop varieties, improved agronomic practices, irrigation and water conservation practices, crop diversification, income diversification, and agroforestry. We ran logit regression to identify the determinants of each individual group. The results show mixed effects of independent variables on these categories of adaptation strategies. Using matching techniques, we found adaptation strategies have positive and significant impact on both household income and food security. The farmers who adopt climate change adaptation strategies are more likely to increase household income by 7721.526 FCFA compared to those households with zero adaptation strategies. Similarly, the adapters have 7% to 9% more chance to be food secure compared to those who did not adopt strategies. These results suggest that strengthening the awareness of the effects of climate change on farmers and the choice of appropriate adaptation strategies are necessary to enhance household resilience. Strengthening institutional factors such as access to credit and market, extension services, and using drought-resilient crop varieties would surely improve agricultural production.

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“…This positive impact of adaptation of these strategies to climate change on household income and food security is supported by the findings of recent studies [60,61].…”

Section: Impact Of Adaptation Strategies On Household Income and Food...mentioning

confidence: 52%

Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Impacts on Household Income and Food Security: Evidence from Sahelian Region of Niger

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“…It is not possible to provide help and support to vulnerable farmers for adaption and implementation of good practices without Government involvement [24,25]. Many researchers acknowledged that farmers are using different techniques to adopt climate changes vulnerability [26] and suggested that there is a crucial need to determine climate change vulnerability, risk perceptions adaptation at a household level in order to minimize impacts of climate change on agriculture [27,28]. Pakistan is mainly an agricultural country [29,30], a major portion of GDP come from this sector.…”

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Farmers’ Awareness about Impacts of Reusing Wastewater, Risk Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in Faisalabad District, Pakistan

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Lizhi³

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Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Water scarceness is the most critical problem for numerous arid and semi-arid areas. It leads to the use of wastewater in many countries. This study was aimed to determine the farmer's awareness about reusing wastewater in their risk perception and adaptation to climate change in district Faisalabad, Pakistan. Faisalabad has become an industrial hub and industrial discharge is becoming problematic for local community and environment. Usually, farmers depend on wastewater for agriculture purposes in many aspects. The present study was divided into two phases, in the first phase a questionnairebased study was conducted in urban and peri-urban areas while in the second phase, wastewater quality parameters were determined (pH, SS, TDS, BOD, COD, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc) and compared with Pakistan Environmental Quality Standards. Results indicated that farmers had a strong awareness (96.8%) about fertility value of wastewater for many aspects, but they were unaware (71.6%) about health hazard of untreated wastewater used for crop irrigation. In the current study correlation of Determining of Climate Change (DCC) with age and farming experience was highly significant with correlation values 0.48 and 0.40 respectively. Adaption Measures (AM) correlation values with age and farming experience were 0.49 and 0.75 respectively. Other variables livelihood Assets (LA) was also correlated with Determining of Climate Change (DCC) and Adaption Measures (AM) and all variables were found significant week to moderate correlation among all selected variables. Farmers (>70%) used different techniques to adapt to climate change like irrigation, seeds,

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“…Land ownership has a positive and significant effect on the adoption of organic fertilizer. Similar to studies on sustainable land practice, long-term investments are more associated with agricultural households that are tenure secured (Abdulai et al, 2011;Ogunpaimo et al, 2021;Oyetunde-Usman et al, 2021). Also, access to extension services significantly impacts the adoption of organic fertilizer, and this is related to adoption studies that found extension endogenous to adoption (Wossen et al, 2017a).…”

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Welfare Impact of Organic Fertilizer Adoption: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria

Oyetunde-Usman

Ogunpaimo

Olagunju

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Soil fertility depletion is acknowledged to adversely influence agricultural productivity and welfare status of rural farming households. Studies have shown that organic fertilizer utilization tends to rejuvenate the soil, thereby enhancing its productive capacity. This study seeks to estimate the welfare impact of organic fertilizer adoption among agricultural households using the 2018/2019 Nigeria General Household Survey (GHS). The novelty of this study is in the use of propensity score matching (PSM) and endogenous treatment regression (ETR) to address biases that may arise from both observed and unobserved factors. Results show that the adoption of organic fertilizers positively and significantly impacts the welfare of farmers, particularly when sources of unobserved characteristics of agricultural households are accounted for. The heterogeneity impact results show that female household heads, agricultural households that had access to credit, and farm household residents in the southern region of Nigeria significantly gained more from the adoption of organic fertilizers. In addition, a check for time effect reveals that the adoption of organic fertilizers does not result in an immediate welfare effect; the effect is, however, positive and significant over time. This suggests that adoption does not only improve soil and mitigate against climate impact, but it also has a higher likelihood of providing long-term and sustainable welfare impact for agricultural households. The results point to the need for policies and programs to promote and sustain the adoption of organic fertilizers among agricultural households through addressing existing institutional barriers such as extension and credit facilities.

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Impact of Climate Change Adaptation on Household Food Security in Nigeria—A Difference-in-Difference Approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 59 publications

Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Impacts on Household Income and Food Security: Evidence from Sahelian Region of Niger

Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Impacts on Household Income and Food Security: Evidence from Sahelian Region of Niger

Farmers’ Awareness about Impacts of Reusing Wastewater, Risk Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in Faisalabad District, Pakistan

Welfare Impact of Organic Fertilizer Adoption: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria

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