In: Cropping Systems ISBN: 978- 1 - 63485 - 888 - 5
Editor: Johanna G. Hodges © 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Chapter 4
GENDER ANALYSIS OF CASSAVA FARMERS’
CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS AND
ADAPTATION IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION
OF NIGERIA
Joseph Omotoso Ajayi
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, NigeriaABSTRACT
The Niger Delta region is very core to understanding gender-based
climate change issues in cassava production. This is because, the region is
a major producer of cassava and both male and female are largely
involved in the production processes. Among others, food crop
production is mostly affected by vagaries in climatic factors. This study
was conducted to analyse gender-based cassava farmers’ climate change
awareness and adaptation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A
multistage sampling technique was used to select 360 cassava farmers
(180 male and 180 female) across three (3) States of Akwa Ibom, Cross
Rivers and Ondo out of the nine (9) states that make up the Niger Delta
region. The study employed descriptive statistics and Multinomial logit
regression model for data analysis. Specifically, the study examined
gender-based socio-economic characteristics of cassava farmers; gender- Email: [email protected], GSM: +2348060743135.