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Assessment of the Degree of Households’ Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Nigeria

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Climate variability is one of the major challenges facing the world today. It is significantly felt on the health, homes, herds, and crops of Africans, including the natural resources upon which many depend to survive, and if adequate measures are not promptly taken, Africa’s population might face an urgent crisis. This paper seeks to determine the relationship between crop production and rainfall pattern, vulnerability of households to climate variability, and the effect of climate variability on agricultural productivity across the geopolitical zones of Nigeria. It will increase the level of awareness of respondent’s exposure and sensitivity to climate variability in the study area. The findings of this study will help stakeholders to know the relationship between climate variables and their productivity and be able to take appropriate coping strategies. Therefore, it is envisioned that the outcome of this research will contribute in designing program through an elaborate understanding of the degree of household’s vulnerability to climate variability which will enable policy makers to formulate policies that will be beneficial to affected persons and areas.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

    Abiodun Emmanuel Awoyemi & O. Adeola Olajide

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  1. Abiodun Emmanuel Awoyemi
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  1. FTZ-NK, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

Appendices

Appendices

Principal component/covariance

Number of observation = 5000

Number of comp = 2

Trace = 10.55122

Rotation (un-rotated = principal)

Rho = 0.2767

Component

Eigenvalue

Difference

Proportion

Cumulative

Comp1

1.68269

0.445701

0.1595

0.1595

Comp2

1.23699

0.117776

0.1172

0.2767

Comp3

1.11921

0.0818093

0.1061

0.3828

Comp4

1.03741

0.0591666

0.0983

0.4811

Comp5

0.978238

0.0951876

0.0927

0.5738

Comp6

0.883051

0.0360326

0.0837

0.6575

Comp7

0.847018

0.053797

0.0803

0.7378

Comp8

0.793221

0.0641303

0.0752

0.8130

Comp9

0.729091

0.0376251

0.0691

0.8821

Comp10

0.691466

0.138633

0.0655

0.9476

Comp11

0.552832

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0.0524

1.0000

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Awoyemi, A.E., Olajide, O.A. (2018). Assessment of the Degree of Households’ Vulnerability to Climate Variability in Nigeria. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Handbook of Climate Change Resilience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71025-9_28-1

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