Analysis of Farmers' Vulnerability to Climate Change in Niger State, Nigeria

Eze, Jude Nwafor; Aliyu, Umar; Alhaji-Baba, Abdulmalik; Alfa, Muhammad

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Analysis of Farmers' Vulnerability to Climate Change in Niger State, Nigeria

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This research evaluates the farmers’ vulnerability to climate change in Niger State. Strategies for reducing the effect of climate change have regularly been made without experimental foundations and adequate information on farmers’ vulnerability to climate change in the study area. Thus, integrated farmers’ vulnerability assessment approach was employed by classifying socioeconomic and biophysical indicators of vulnerability into adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure to determine the farmers’ vulnerability to climate change. This is based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s definition of vulnerability. The study adopted a survey design and the method utilized for the study was questionnaire administered to 400 households in the study area. The results indicate that the farmers’ vulnerability was low in zone A with a mean index of 2.86, very low in zone B with a mean index of 3.74, and high in zone C with a mean index of 1.95 (the higher the value of the index the lower the vulnerability of farmers). It is recommended that measures should be taken to integrate climate change adaptation into Niger State development process. These measures should include improvement in adoption of good agricultural practices (GAP).

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 82)

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1-9

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.82.1

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J. N. Eze et al., "Analysis of Farmers' Vulnerability to Climate Change in Niger State, Nigeria", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 82, pp. 1-9, 2018

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June 2018

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Jude Nwafor Eze, Umar Aliyu, Abdulmalik Alhaji-Baba, Muhammad Alfa

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Adaptive Capacity, Agriculture, Climate Change, Exposure, Sensitivity, Vulnerability

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