Gender Analysis of Cassava Farmers’ Climate Change Awareness ... 93having “change in weather.” The proportion of farmers who had indicated
climate change for having “prolonged drought” and “intense sunshine”
accounted about 65% and 60% for male farmers and about 50% and 20% for
female farmers respectively. Only few of the farmers both male and female
related climate change to “ozone layer depletion” and the proportion of them
that had no idea of climate change was also small. While multiple responses
exited for this categories of question, the farmers both male and female had
been able to link their understanding of climate change significantly to
different vagaries in major climatic factors of rainfall, temperature and
weather. These findings are consistent with (Ajayi, 2015).
*Multiple responses exited.
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.
Figure 1.
Gender-Based Cassava Farmers’ Source of Information
on Climate Change
Ajayi (2015) observed that availability and accessibility to information on
climate change is a key determinant of level of awareness, understanding, and
knowledge of climate change. The source of information and the information
available to the farmers are both key in their awareness and adoption of
climate change adaptation strategies. As reflected in Figure 2, significant