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Climate Change Adaptation: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Indigenous Knowledge Systems among Rural Farmers in Akpanya Community, Kogi State, Nigeria

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Adamawa State University Journal of Scientific Research (ADSUJSR) Volume 12 Issue 2, 2024 Author: Audu Liberty Oseni Abstract Our disregard for the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) contributes largely to the failure of state and non-state actors’ intervention targeting climate change adaptation among rural farmers. In a study population of an estimated 19,800 predominantly rural farmers …

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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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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International Equinox Earth Day Celebration 2024: Earth belongs to everyone

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Annually, there is a global international Equinox Earth Day Celebration to renew our collective commitment to honour the Earth and promote peace for all to live and enjoy the Earth that belongs to us all. As we celebrate the Equinox Earth Day on this 19th day of March 2024, we must hold on to our …

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Climate Change Education Must Adopt Dialogue & Negotiation

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

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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Farmers in Anambra bear Climate Change burden

Leave a Comment / Climate Change and Environment / By MAWA-Foundation

Farmers in Anambra state have continued to bear the climate change burden. Flooding as a result of rising sea levels caused by climate change, led to the destruction of more than 2,500 chickens in a poultry farm in Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. The Matuuci Farms Ltd located at Agbobo Umuoga Ossomala Community in the Ogbaru …

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Nsukka Women Farmers Worse Hit by Climate Change

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Women farmers who cultivate Pepper at Edemu Ani community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria, appear to be the worst hit by shortage of rainfall as a result of climate change. The women who cannot drill boreholes for irrigation farming and are largely dependent on tanker drivers to water their farms …

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