Assessment of poor resource farmers level of awareness on climate change and adaptation/mitigation strategies in selected rural areas in Oyo State, Southwest, Nigeria | Zendy

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Assessment of poor resource farmers level of awareness on climate change and adaptation/mitigation strategies in selected rural areas in Oyo State, Southwest, Nigeria

Author(s) -

Adetayo Adetayo

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of geography and regional planning

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2070-1845

DOI - 10.5897/jgrp12.090

Subject(s) - climate change , geography , descriptive statistics , agriculture , socioeconomics , resource (disambiguation) , environmental resource management , publicity , environmental planning , government (linguistics) , environmental protection , business , environmental science , ecology , sociology , marketing , computer network , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , computer science , biology

Climate change is a phenomenon that is currently in dire need of a wide range of publicity and other measures in order to adapt and mitigate its effect on the society. This study examined the level of climate change awareness among the poor resource farmers in some selected local government areas of Oyo state. A well structured questionnaire titled "Climate Change Awareness Questionnaire (CCAQ)" was administered on a sample of 240 households. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical tools such as frequency counts and percentage as well as cross table analysis. Findings indicated that the level of climate change awareness was generally low among the resource poor farmers.

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