Climate Change Situation in Zamfara State: Farmers’ Awareness and Agricultural Implications
Abstract
Farmers’ awareness on climate change and the agricultural implications in five local governments of Zamfara state were carefully investigated. The research methodology utilized a Rapid Rural Appraisal approach to interview the farmers on the basis of targeted and influential factors such as awareness, mitigation and adaptation strategies and the sources of information on climate change. A batch of 300 local farmers was interviewed in each of the five local governments. The outcome of the study revealed to a high degree that while the farmers are aware of the climate change and its agricultural consequences, the different options utilized for the handling of its challenges are crude (i.e. low grade) with great perception that adaptation strategies are likely to be more effective for the region.
Keywords: Climate change; implications; knowledge; farmers; handling.
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