Social inclusion of rural-rural migrant arable crop farmers and agriculture production in Delta State, Nigeria

Okompu

2022

JAEID

Self Cite

Objective: The study has the purpose of evaluating the nexus between climate change and migration of farmers in Delta State, Nigeria. The influence exerted by cognitive situations and climate – driven stress on farmers’ decisions to migrate and the socioeconomic attributes of migrating and non-migrating farm families are examined. The emphasis is the function of migration in accessing climate and agricultural extension services as well as the contribution made by migration to promote farmers’ climate change coping capacity. Methodology: Survey was articulated using farming households in three agricultural zones of Delta State, Nigeria. Perceptions of farmers about alterations in climate were examined with the use of mental map technique. Binary logistic regression model was applied to assess the function of socioeconomic attributes of farm families while descriptive statistics was employed in evaluating the adaptive capacities of the migrating farming households. Findings: Climate – driven livelihood variables form part of the main propellers of migration among farmers. Migration as well as the socioeconomic attributes is influenced by perception of farmers about climate change. There appears significant difference between migrating and non-migrating farm families with respect to utilization of information, technology and knowledge emanating from agricultural and climate extension services. The gains from remittances, knowledge and social networks from host communities or zones raise migrating farm families capacity to adapt to climate change. Theoretical Implications: This paper contributes to the progressively dynamic body of knowledge by pointing out migration as an alternative climate change adaptation strategy to promote agriculture food security in any part of the world. Originality/Value: Micro – evidence is offered by this study with respect to contribution made by migration to adaptive capacity of farmers and their ability to have access to agricultural and climate extension services. This will be useful in the analysis of climate – driven migration in other nations that are agricultural economies. Insight is also offered regarding policy needs for the scaling down of farmers’ vulnerability to climate change.

Section: Rationale For Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration among Farmers in Delta State, Nigeria: Is it a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy?

Okompu

2022

JAEID

Self Cite

“…It is under mangrove, swamp, freshwater and rainforests and derived savannah vegetative cover. It is demarcated into three agricultural zones, namely Delta South, Delta North and Delta Central Agricultural zones by the then Delta State Agricultural Development programme (DTADP) (Ofuoku and Ekorhi-Robinson 2018;Ofuoku et al, 2019;Ofuoku, 2019).…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Delta Eyaleti, Nijerya'da Meteoroloji Hizmetlerine Erişim ve Kullanım Kısıtlamaları

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi

Obiazi

2021

Climate change effect on agricultural productivity is very glaring. There is an advocacy for arable crops farmers to take advantage of the Nigeria meteorological services (NIMET) as part of adaptation strategies against climate change. Having an insight into the constraints to access and utilization agrometeorological services is worthwhile for agricultural extension programme planning. This study evaluated assessed the constraint to access and utilization of agro-meteorological service among arable crop farmers in Delta State Nigeria. The agro-meteorological services that were most made available to them ranged from daily weather forecast to seasonal weather condition. The farmers mostly accessed and utilized daily weather forecast, seasonal rainfall prediction, information on crop stages performance and general weather condition. However, untimely release and transmission of the needed information was the major constraint to utilization of agro-meteorological services. The farmers' socioeconomic attributes such as level of formal education, household size, farm size, extension contact and membership of farmers' association influenced the utilization of agro-meteorological services. It is concluded that the level of access to and utilization of agro-meteorological services is low as a result of the constraints experienced by the farmers. It was recommended that agrometeorological services information need to be disseminated timely and the information be simplified before dissemination to farmers.

“…There is the need to give strength to the linkages between host and source communities in other to reactively strengthen home community resilience (Conway and Cohen, 1998), enhance its economic well -being (Adger et al, 2002) and offer access to needed resources required to enrich its human, cultural and social capital (Woodrugg and Zenteno, 2007). Social relationships in the host community have likewise been indicated as a crucial factor to employment and opportunities to shelter (Ofuoku, 2019).…”

Section: Rationale For Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Banerjee et al, (2011) emphasize that remittances are the most glaring factor that enhance farming households' capacities to adapt to conditions of stress. Enhanced income from diversi cation of sources of livelihood creates room for farming household to increase their capacity to adapt in order to cope with the risk accompanying climate change (Patnaik and Das, 2017;Tripathi 2017;, Tacoli (2009), Larzko and Aghazarm (2009) and Ofuoku (2019) states that in order to avoid the disastrous consequences of climate change adaptations has been made a very signi cant policy option and that one of the adaptation strategies of potent is migration. Since agriculture is the most climate -centered economic activity, it is faced with the highest risk and uncertainties that lead to loss of livelihood.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration among Farmers in Delta State, Nigeria: Is it a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy?

Okompu

2020

Preprint

Objective: The study has the purpose of evaluating the nexus between climate change and migration of farmers in Delta State, Nigeria. The influence exerted by cognitive situations and climate – driven stress on farmers’ decisions to migrate and the socioeconomic attributes of migrating and non-migrating farm families are examined. The emphasis is the function of migration in accessing climate and agricultural extension services as well as the contribution made by migration to promote farmers’ climate change coping capacity.Methodology: Survey was articulated using farming households in three agricultural zones of Delta State, Nigeria. Perceptions of farmers about alterations in climate were examined with the use of mental map technique. Binary logistic regression model was applied to assess the function of socioeconomic attributes of farm families while descriptive statistics was employed in evaluating the adaptive capacities of the migrating farming households.Findings: Climate – driven livelihood variables form part of the main propellers of migration among farmers. Migration as well as the socioeconomic attributes are influenced by perception of farmers about climate change. These appears significant difference between migrating and non-migrating farm families with respect to utilization of information, technology and knowledge emanating from agricultural and climate extension services. The gains from remittances, knowledge and social networks from host communities or zones raises migrating farm families capacity to adapt to climate change.Theoretical Implications: This paper contributes to the progressively dynamic body of knowledge by pointing out migration as an alternative climate change adaptation strategy to promote agriculture food security in any part of the world.Originality/Value: Micro – evidence is offered by this study with respect to contribution made by migration to adaptive capacity of farmers and their ability to have access to agricultural and climate extension services. This will be useful in the analysis of climate – driven migration in other nations that are agricultural economies. Insight is also offered regarding policy needs for the scaling down of farmers’ vulnerability to climate change.