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ISSN 2536-7110 © 2022 VOL. 8(1), Pp. 1 - 13, © MAY 2023

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FOOD PRODUCTION AND FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

AKINFISOYE, E.O., BAKARE, K.O. and OMOSUYI, O. B.
Department of Geography
Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo. Nigeria

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ABSTRACT
The issue of climate change and its impact on agriculture has become an unending discussion, and is of major international concern. This could be attributed to the increase in greenhouse gases. That’s why the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has called for stabilization of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent serious anthropogenic interference with the climate system, and to ensure that food production is not threatened but secured. This paper investigates the impact of climate change on food crop production and food security in Tropical Africa; Nigeria. The study examines the incidence of climate change and their probability of occurrence on food production, and the trend in the food crop yield level of the farmers among other objectives. A total of fifty (50) seasoned food crop farmers were sampled and interviewed in the study area. Sampling was done using snowballing technique to identify a sample frame and simple random sampling was carried out to select the fifty respondents. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis; frequencies, means and loggit regression techniques were used. The food crop farmers in the study area produce mainly cassava, yam, maize, vegetables (tomatoes, pepper, and okra) and tree crops. The study revealed that climate change results in adverse conditions of flooding, drought, diseases, pests’ outbreak, erratic rainfall and high temperature with high probabilities of occurrence. Also that farmers use various management strategies to address the possibilities of loss in yields and food insecurity threats due to climate change effects, amongst which are: enterprise and geographical diversification, irrigation and drainage, shift to foreign foods and change of diets, even skipping meals.
Key words: Agriculture, Climate Change, Food Security


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