Paper short abstract:

The world is facing increasingly severe implications of climate change on food value chain. The study showed that climate change has a significant effect on food production and processing along the value chain system. The study recommends management of anthropogenic sources that cause climate change

Paper long abstract:

Policymakers are concerned about how climate change is affecting the food value chain because, if nothing is done, the world could face increasingly severe implications. As the effects of climate change tighten their hold on the earth, extreme weather events and fluctuations in temperature and precipitation are becoming more evident with serious implications for the food value chain system, particularly in Nigeria and throughout Africa. The agro-input dealers, farmers, processors, marketers, and consumers make up the Nigerian food value chain actors. A multitude of dangers had been posed to the production, storage, processing, marketing, and accessibility of food by climate change. Using both primary and secondary data, this study examines the effect of climate change on food value chain in South West Nigeria. The secondary data were obtained from annual/monthly reports of Climate Change Department in the Federal Ministry of Environment, while the primary data were collected through a structured questionnaire and focus group discussion from 480 respondents who are agro-input dealers, farmers, processors and marketers of important staple foods in South West, Nigeria. The study revealed that climate change affects all the food value chain stakeholders directly or indirectly with a different magnitude. The climate change has a major influence, with a greater impact on production and processing activities along the value chain as compared to input supply and marketing. The study recommended that approaches to climate change vulnerabilities should aim to deploy new approaches to agricultural practices and management of anthropogenic sources that cause climate change.