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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Agriculture in the world especially sub-Saharan Africa is at the crossroads simply because climate change has brought a menace to the agricultural sector, which must be attended to. One potentially feasible solution is to invest in and embrace resilient farming practices.
Paper long abstract:
Shifting to agricultural practices with resilient farming
practices is crucial in building resilience to climate change and
reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is against this premise that this
study seeks to assess how land governance affects the willingness of
smallholders to embrace resilient farming practices (RFPs)) in the study
area. This study makes use of the 2017 Federal University of
Agriculture, Abeokuta ECOWAS RAAF PASANAO[1] Survey, a Nation-wide
Survey of Cereals Production Systems and Willingness to Accept
Incentives to Adopt Climate-Smart Practices among Smallholders in
Nigeria. This survey provides information on land governance as well as
RFPs which was used to achieve the objectives of this study. Land
governance was measured in the form of tenure type, land-use choices,
and tenure security. The respondents were selected in a multi-stage
random sampling process, covering sixteen States, six agricultural
blocks per state as well as 192 farming communities, summing up to 1,536
households. The RFPs were measured using four dummy variables -
agroforestry, good agricultural practices with manure, good agricultural
practices without manure and status quo. Data was analyzed using
descriptive and regression methods. A priori, land governance should
have a positive influence on the willingness to embrace RFPs. We,
therefore, conclude that sound land governance is fundamental in
achieving sustainable agriculture.
JEFCAS Panel: Mobilising responses to climate change risks in Africa: fragility and contested resilience agendas
Session 1 Wednesday 17 June, 2020, -