Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification write by Amare, Mulubrhan. This book was released on 2023-10-24. Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Key Highlights: Changes in temperature, measured in harmful degree days (HDDs), and precipitation have a significant negative impact on agricultural productivity in Nigeria, which highlights the adverse effects of extreme weather on crop yields. Climate changes affect income sources for farming households. We found that an increase in HDDs reduces households’ income share from crops and nonfarm self-employment, implying threats to household food security for smallholders whose livelihoods depend on subsistence farming and food consumption from own sources. In response to the risks posed by climate change, farmers adopt changes in crop mixes (for example, reducing the share of land allocated to cereals) and input use decisions (for example, reducing fertilizer use and purchased seeds) as an adaptation strategy. Adaption strategies that lead to low use of yield-enhancing modern inputs could worsen agricultural productivity and household food insecurity. However, we found that farmers in Nigeria respond to extreme climate by switching to drought tolerant root or tuber crops. Such strategies could partially offset the adverse effects of climatic shocks on households’ welfare. Climate changes negatively impact agricultural productivity for both poor and non-poor households, but the effects are more pronounced among poorer households, according to our heterogenous effects analysis on household’s initial endowments (based on wealth indicators measured in asset and livestock holdings). This implies low adaptive capacity on the part of poor households and thus their high vulnerability to climate-related shocks. Suggested policy recommendations include interventions to incentivize adoption of climate-resilient agriculture, targeted pro-poor interventions such as low-cost financing options for improving smallholders’ access to climate-proof agricultural inputs and technologies, and policy measures to reduce the inequality of access to livelihood capital, such as land and other productive assets.
Toward Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria
Toward Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria write by Raffaello Cervigni. This book was released on 2013-08-05. Toward Climate-Resilient Development in Nigeria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If not addressed in time, climate change is expected to exacerbate Nigeria’s current vulnerability to weather swings and limit its ability to achieve and sustain the objectives of Vision 20:2020 [as defined in http://www.npc.gov.ng /home/doc.aspx?mCatID=68253]. The likely impacts include: • A long-term reduction in crop yields of 20–30 percent • Declining productivity of livestock, with adverse consequences on livelihoods • Increase in food imports (up to 40 percent for rice long term) • Worsening prospects for food security, particularly in the north and the southwest • A long-term decline in GDP of up to 4.5 percent The impacts may be worse if the economy diversifies away from agriculture more slowly than Vision 20:2020 anticipates, or if there is too little irrigation to counter the effects of rising temperatures on rain-fed yields. Equally important, investment decisions made on the basis of historical climate may be wrong: projects ignoring climate change might be either under- or over-designed, with losses (in terms of excess capital costs or foregone revenues) of 20–40 percent of initial capital in the case of irrigation or hydropower. Fortunately, there is a range of technological and management options that make sense, both to better handle current climate variability and to build resilience against a harsher climate: • By 2020 sustainable land management practices applied to 1 million hectares can offset most of the expected shorter-term yield decline; gradual extension of these practices to 50 percent of cropland, possibly combined with extra irrigation, can also counter-balance longer-term climate change impacts. • Climate-smart planning and design of irrigation and hydropower can more than halve the risks and related costs of making the wrong investment decision. The Federal Government could consider 10 short-term priority responses to build resilience to both current climate variability and future change through actions to improve climate governance across sectors, research and extension in agriculture, hydro-meteorological systems; integration of climate factors into the design of irrigation and hydropower projects, and mainstreaming climate concerns into priority programs, such as the Agriculture Transformation Agenda.
Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa
Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa write by Rattan Lal. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands through Forestry and Agroforestry, 5) Management of Animal Production for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 6) Smallholder Adaptation to Climate Change, and 7) Economic, Social and Policy Issues. It addresses these themes in the context of sustainable intensification (SI). It implies increasing agronomic production from the existing land while improving/restoring its quality and decreasing the C or environmental footprint. Simply put, SI means producing more from less.
Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa
Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa write by Bal Ram Singh. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses knowledge-based sustainable agro-ecological and natural resource management systems and best practices for sustained agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience for better livelihoods under a changing climate. With a focus on agriculture in Africa, the book assesses innovative technologies for use on smallholder farms, and addresses some of the key Sustainable Development Goals to guide innovative responses and enhanced adaptation methods for coping with climate change. Contributions are based on 'Capacity Building for Managing Climate Change in Malawi' (CABMACC), a five-year program with an overall goal to improve livelihoods and food security through innovative responses and enhanced capacity of adaptation to climate change. Readers will discover more about sustainable crop production, climate smart agriculture, on-farm energy supply from biogas and the potential of soil carbon sequestration in crop-livestock systems.
Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation
Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation write by Walter Leal. This book was released on 2016-01-16. Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.
