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Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation Among Rural Households in Imo State, Nigeria
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The study was designed to ascertain the strategies for climate change adaptation among
rural households in Imo State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study ascertained the respondents’ level
of awareness on climate change, ascertained their perceived causes of climate change, identified
and documented the effective local adaptation strategies to climate change, and finally identified
factors that militate against effective adaptation to climate change in the study area. All the rural
households in the state constituted the population for the study. A total of 108 respondents, made
up of 12 household heads selected from each of the nine villages purposively selected for the
study were used. Data were collected using semi-structured questionnaires. Percentage
distribution, mean statistic, charts, and factor analysis were used to analyze the data. The major
findings showed that majority (78.3%) of the respondents were aware of climate change. It
further showed that a greater proportion, (about 41%) of the respondents know very little about
climate change.
Most of the respondents, (about 62%) were aware of climate change through
personal experience and observation. Further, most of the respondents (47.7%) described climate
change as persistent short rainfall duration. About 71% of the respondents agreed that climate
change had effect on agriculture, while about 49% of the respondents perceived that major effect
of climate change on agriculture was declining crop yield. Some percentages (about 18.0%) of
the respondents perceived women as the most vulnerable to climate change. The respondents
perceived gas flaring (M= 2.07), violation of local customs (M = 2.01) and natural phenomena
(M = 2.00) as the causes of climate change in the study area. Furthermore, they perceived
growing of drought-resistant crop varieties (M = 1.14), use of pest/disease resistant crop varieties
(M = 1.06), roof water harvesting (M = 1.00), sinking of more wells (M = 1.06), ground water
harvesting (M = 1.07), planting deeper into the soil to avoid heat stress (M = 1.10), increased
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