Climate Change and Environment

Field Note: Climate Action Is Failing Because It Ignores Indigenous Knowledge

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In the last six years I have effectively engaged rural communities in Nigeria. My interactions with them revealed that climate change is a lived reality — not a technical issue. Changes in rainfall patterns, floods, heatwaves, and altered planting seasons are everyday disruptions the locals face and experience. Yet, the dominant climate response models ignore […]

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Driving Climate Action through Communication for Development

Driving Climate Action through Communication for Development

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Driving Climate Action through Communication for Development   As Project Lead at the Centre for Development Communication, since 2022, my team and I have led a climate change communication initiative where we deployed the Communication for Development (C4D) approach — a participatory strategy that promotes community-led dialogue, learning, and action on development issues. This approach

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Indigenous Communication Central for Climate Change Adaptation among Rural Farmers

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Interventions by government and development partners targeting rural farmers for climate change adaptation measures must deploy “Indigenous communication approaches” such as community gathering for information sharing, storytelling, elder teaching, and dance etc. Long practices have seen development partners engage communication consultants who consider communication as a one-sided approach where information is disseminated through radio jingles,

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Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

Climate Change is fake, don’t tell us about it

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Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the

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We are yet to effectively communicate climate chage

We are yet to effectively communicate climate change

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In 2015, the Comity of Nations put in place the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. The agreement is considered a landmark effort in addressing Climate Change, it is a binding agreement that brings together nations for a collective cause to embark on determining work to fight climate change and adapt

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Climate Change Education Must Adopt Dialogue & Negotiation 

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Our approach to communicating Climate Change has to adopt dialogue and negotiation, and not only focus on campaign and advocacy. This will facilitate trust-building, empowerment, efficiency, accountability, and sustainability among community members. It will further allow for effective participation that will create room for both development agents and communities to learn, re-learn, and have an

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How Climate Change Impacts Students in Sokoto

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Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, North-west Nigeria in different accounts, narrated how hot weather conditions triggered by climate change are impacting them. Some of the students link their poor academic performance to hot weather, which they say makes it difficult for them to attend classes and learn in a conducive environment. Jibrin Mutar, a

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Poor Participation, Reason Climate Change Interventions Fail 

Poor Participatory Communication, Reason Climate Change Interventions Fail

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Over the years, practitioners who design Climate Change interventions, have continued to adopt approaches that allow community and strategic stakeholders participation to be only an avenue to extract information, rather than allowing for effective participation.   They often follow Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal approaches which have since been replaced by Participatory Learning and

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Logging activities leading to biodiversity loss in Kogi community 

Logging activities leading to biodiversity loss in Kogi community 

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Logging activities are leading to a huge loss of forest and biodiversity at Enugu Ogboyaga Community in Igalamela Local Government Area of Kogi. Animals who depend on the forests for survival are disappearing while the forest faces extinction.   The forest that stretches about 10 kilometres is fast disappearing. A visit to the forest which is

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Time for Climate Channge Action is now

Time for Climate Channge Action is now

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Having seen the impacts of climate change on rural farmers and rural settlements, we appeal to climate researchers and environmental activists to raise their voices in pushing advocacy and campaigns for climate justice and resilience actions. The campaign is most fundamental because we have seen climate change becoming a major threat facing rural farmers in

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