Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification

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dc.creatorAmare, Mulubrhan
dc.creatorBalana, Bedru
dc.creatorOnilogbo, Omobolanle
dc.date2023-10-23
dc.date2023-10-27T19:35:46Z
dc.date2023-10-27T19:35:46Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:01:13Z
dc.descriptionKey Highlights: Changes in temperature, measured in harmful degree days (HDDs), and precipitation have a significant negative impact on agricultural productivity in Nigeria, which highlights the adverse effects of extreme weather on crop yields. Climate changes affect income sources for farming households. We found that an increase in HDDs reduces households’ income share from crops and nonfarm self-employment, implying threats to household food security for smallholders whose livelihoods depend on subsistence farming and food consumption from own sources. In response to the risks posed by climate change, farmers adopt changes in crop mixes (for example, reducing the share of land allocated to cereals) and input use decisions (for example, reducing fertilizer use and purchased seeds) as an adaptation strategy. Adaption strategies that lead to low use of yield-enhancing modern inputs could worsen agricultural productivity and household food insecurity. However, we found that farmers in Nigeria respond to extreme climate by switching to drought tolerant root or tuber crops. Such strategies could partially offset the adverse effects of climatic shocks on households’ welfare. Climate changes negatively impact agricultural productivity for both poor and non-poor households, but the effects are more pronounced among poorer households, according to our heterogenous effects analysis on household’s initial endowments (based on wealth indicators measured in asset and livestock holdings). This implies low adaptive capacity on the part of poor households and thus their high vulnerability to climate-related shocks. Suggested policy recommendations include interventions to incentivize adoption of climate-resilient agriculture, targeted pro-poor interventions such as low-cost financing options for improving smallholders’ access to climate-proof agricultural inputs and technologies, and policy measures to reduce the inequality of access to livelihood capital, such as land and other productive assets.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132504
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92248
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136717
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAmare, Mulubrhan; Balana, Bedru; and Onilogbo, Omobolanle. 2023. Enhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification. NSSP Policy Note 56. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136942.
dc.subjectclimate resilience
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectlivelihood diversification
dc.subjectheat stress
dc.subjectextreme weather events
dc.subjectcrop yield
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectoff-farm employment
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.titleEnhancing climate resilience in Nigerian agriculture: Implications for sustainable adaptation and livelihood diversification
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