Abstract
Sustainable production refers to the production that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. At global level and mainly across Nigeria, rice fields are considered as one of the most important sources of atmospheric concentration of two greenhouse gases, mainly anthropogenic methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. These greenhouse gases (GHGs) are produced under anaerobic conditions, and their production has negative environmental and health implications. Additionally, the growing demand for rice across Nigeria exceeds supply, resulting in a rice deficit. To overcome this challenge, rice production should be increased, with so much regard to less GHG emission. Moving forward, understanding the determinate of farmers’ mitigation strategies to GHGs will definitely enhance effort made for farmers to continue to mitigate easily over-time. Incidentally, empirical study on the present discourse is relatively scanty, isolated, and devoid of in-depth and quantitative analyses. Most empirical studies did not pay close attention to the determinants of rice farmers’ decisions to mitigation options to GHGs. Studies on mitigation of GHGs at a farm or household level should rigorously examine the socioeconomic characteristics that influence farmers’ decisions to practice GHG mitigation or not. These create a gap in research and make it extremely difficult if not impossible for the governments/interest groups to know the method they can adopt in helping farmers mitigate the negative impact of GHG emission in rice production. It was against this backdrop that this study was systematically undertaken.
Highlights
IntroductionSustainable production refers to the production that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their ownPlant Stress Physiology needs [1]
A combination of various factors seems to have triggered the structural increase in rice consumption over the years with consumption broadening across all socioeconomic classes, including the poor [5]
The study was logically guided by describing the socioeconomic characteristics of the rice farmers; identifying and describing the mitigation strategies for greenhouse gases (GHGs) used by rice farmers and constraints in mitigating GHGs in rice farming
Summary
Sustainable production refers to the production that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their ownPlant Stress Physiology needs [1]. More than half of the worlds’ population depends on rice for about 80% of its food calorie requirements [3, 4] It has become a staple food in Nigeria such that every household, both the rich and the poor, consumes a great quantity. The current understanding of the determinate of farmers’ mitigation strategies to GHG emission in rice agric-food system in Nigeria has not much been empirically documented. The dependent variable is assumed to follow a multinomial distribution, a generalization of the binomial distribution This creates a gap in knowledge and makes it absolutely difficult if not impossible for researchers, the government, and policy-makers to know the method they can adopt in assisting the farmers increase their production, their standard of living and livelihood in a cleaner environment. It was against these backdrops that it became increasingly pertinent that the study was systematically and logically undertaken
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