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Title: An Appraisal Of The Impact Of Indigenous And Western Knowledge On Climate Change Adaptation Among Dry Season (fadama) Farmers Of Jekarade Irrigation Scheme, Kazaure Local Government Area, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Authors: Yakubu Abubakar Kazaure Isa
Year: 2024
Publication No: KJGSE-2024-36
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Issue: Volume 1, Number 2
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This study appraised the impact of indigenous and western knowledge on climate change adaptation among dry season (Fadama) farmers of Jekarade Irrigation Scheme, Kazaure Local Government area of Jigawa State. The objectives of the study are to identify the salient consequences and signs of climate change in the study area, levels of awareness of climate change among the farmers, indigenous adaptation techniques employed by the dry season farmers to mitigate against or douse the negative effects of climate change, types of adaptation mechanisms put in place to make the agricultural practices to be in consonance with the conditions posed by climate change in the study area and investigate the relationship between literacy status and climate change awareness among dry season farmers. Primary and secondary data sources were explored to accomplish this study. For the primary source of data personal interviews (through structured questionnaires) and Focused Group Discussion (FGD) were conducted among the sampled respondents. The study among other things revealed that strong relationship between literacy status (Tertiary education = 56%, Secondary education = 40% and Primary education = 4%) and environmental awareness; drought resistant, early growing and higher yielding varieties of crops are the most commonly planted crops to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This study recommended among other things that farmers should form strong cooperative society so as to buttress/compliment government’s efforts in combating the negative consequences of climate change.  


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