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Abstract
This study was designed to investigate the perception of climate change among arable crop farmers in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state, Nigeria using a well-structured questionnaire for data acquisition. Descriptive and inferential (chi-square) statistics were used to analyze the data.. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (50.8%) were between the ages of 40-49years and majority of them (85.8%) are married with household size of 7-10 persons. The study further revealed that (33.3%) of the respondents had no formal education while, (42.5%) of the respondents had a farming experience of 16years and above. However, it also shows that majority of the respondents are aware of the effect and causes of climate change. Significant association exists between marital status (x2=68.426, P=0.000), family size (X2=25.777, P=0.012) and perceived effect of climate change. The study therefore recommended that the government and extension agents should enlighten the women farmers more about climate change and should also help in making them adapt excellently to climate change.
Highlights
Agriculture is overly important in every society and its impact cannot be quantified
This study was designed to investigate the perception of climate change among arable crop farmers in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state of Nigeria
This agrees with the findings of Odebode (2008) who reported that perception and acceptability of innovation is mainly associated with useful and active age of farmers. It in line with the findings of Gingras et al (2005) which states that the younger the farmers the more productive they are. This means that farmers in the study area are relatively young and that could play a considerable role in climate change adaptation since younger farmers are economically active and can undergo stress and have the man-power to carry out labor intensive response strategies (Kutir, 2015)
Summary
Agriculture is overly important in every society and its impact cannot be quantified. Perceived effect of climate refers to the respondent’s assessment, views, observations, opinions, belief, thoughts, and understanding about the result, consequences, outcome, and aftermath of climate change.Bomuhangi et al (2016) state that human perceptions of this change are worth exploring, as they could provide insight into erratic nature of climate change. The knowledge gained from investigating how local populations perceive changes in weather could be used to develop community‐specific adaptation strategies which address the most relevant effects of climate change (Slegers, 2008). Scherer and Cho (2003) identified that perception can be augmented through social network via information sharing, resulting in differential perception among farmers These findings assert that there exists heterogeneity in climate risk perception among different farmers who are endowed with differential resources (Menapace et al 2015; Niles and Mueller 2016).
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