Abstract

AbstractClimate change contributes significantly to the looming food insecurity in the rain-fed agricultural countries of Africa, including Nigeria. There is a gender dimension in climate change impacts and adaptation strategies along Agriculture Value Chain (AVC) in Nigeria. The chapter gender analyzed the aspects of climate change impacts; identified the indigenous and expert-based artificial adaptation strategies; assessed the gender differences in the adaptation strategies; and provided the gender implications of the indigenous adaptation strategies among actors along the AVC. The chapter adopted a value chain-based exploratory design with gender analysis as the narrative framework with Gender Response Theory as the theoretical background. There were gender differences in the production, economic, and social dimensions of the climate change impacts along the AVC. The indigenous climate change adaptation strategies were availability, low cost, and easily accessible; hence they were popularly adopted by male and female AVC actors. The adopted indigenous adaptation strategies challenged the social relations, influenced reordering of social and gender relations, participation, and power relation among the male and female actors along the AVC.

Highlights

  • United Nations Development Program (UNDP 2014) report revealed that in Nigeria, women play a dominant role in agricultural production where they make up some 60–80% of the farm labor force, depending on the region, and they produce two-thirds of the food crops

  • Climate change impacts are felt more on the poor living in the rain-fed regions such as Nigeria

  • The chapter confirms that: 1. Agriculture in Nigeria is rain-fed in nature; it is significantly impacted negatively by climate change and variability

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Summary

Introduction

United Nations Development Program (UNDP 2014) report revealed that in Nigeria, women play a dominant role in agricultural production where they make up some 60–80% of the farm labor force, depending on the region, and they produce two-thirds of the food crops. The theory affirms that: the indigenous knowledge is a common asset to both male and female; males are likely to substitute their indigenous knowledge for new/ modern/scientific/expert-based knowledge, while the females are likely to add the new knowledge to the indigenous knowledge; males are likely to respond to new knowledge/innovation/technology more promptly than the females; and that the economic and social relation potentials, especially the decision-making power, influence the promptness of the male’s response to (adoption of) the new knowledge/innovation/technology, to mention a few. The content of the activities may vary within different agricultural crop enterprises, they have many similarities

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Cultivation
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Consumption and utilization
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Soil conservation management practices
Reordering of social and gender relations
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