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management practices ranked 1st among male cassava farmers while poor
technical know-how on modern adaptation techniques was the most constraint
among female cassava farmers in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. These
were followed closely by poor farming management practices and cropping
systems as the 2nd most ranked constraint by male cassava farmers while on
the contrary, Low level of information on climate change was the 2nd ranked
constraints indicated by female cassava farmers. Delayed responses to vagaries
in climatic factors ranked 3rd among male cassava farmers while poor farming
management practices ranked the same among female cassava farmers. Other
constraints were also significant and included low level of education of
cassava farmers and inadequate capital. These constraints should therefore
form the bases of policy formulation targeted at improving climate change
adaption strategies among male and female cassava farmers in the Niger Delta
region of Nigeria.

Table 4. Gender-based cassava farmers’ constraints to climate change

adaptation in the study area

Constraints to climate change

adaptation

Male cassava

farmers

Female cassava

farmers

Frequency

(%)

Rank Frequency

(%)

Rank

Poor farming management practices

and cropping systems

128 (0.711) 2 nd 130 (0.72) 3 rd

Poor environmental management

practices

134 (0.74) 1 st 109 (0.61) 5 th

Low level of information on climate

change

97 (0.54) 7 th 142 (0.79) 2 nd

Poor technical know-how on modern

adaptation techniques

112 (0.62) 4 th 152 (0.84) 1 st

Delayed responses to vagaries in

climatic factors

122 (0.68) 3 rd 89 (0.49) 7 th

Low level of education of cassava

farmers

102 (0.57) 5 th 102 (0.57) 6 th

Inadequate capital 100 (0.57) 6th 128 (0.71) 4 th
*Multiple responses exited.
Source: Computed from field survey, 2015.