Climate field school as a panacea for climate change adaptation and mitigation for ecological sustainable and food production in agriculture. An overview

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue V, May 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Climate field school as a panacea for climate change adaptation and mitigation for ecological sustainable and food production in agriculture. An overview

UCHI Dominic Terhile
Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University Dutse, Nigeria

Abstract: The review is on the important of climate field school for climate change mitigation and adaptation on environmental sustainable and food production in agriculture. The review is qualitative and it used secondary data from various literatures. It emphasized that agriculture is sensitive sector been threaten by climate change variations affecting farmers’ livelihood and creating extreme events of flood, wildfires, rainstorm, drought and heat waves on the land which is the only natural resources farmers depend on. The review further intensified the use of three approaches of food production sustainability, adaptation and mitigation of climate field school which stressed the need for, reduced related activities greenhouse gases emission and management processes for crops and livestock growth. The review categorized the various agricultural activities which emits greenhouse gases and the mitigations managing process which include reforestations, direct agricultural emission reductions, use of renewable energy sources as specific by climate field school for sustainable environment, adaptations and mitigations. The review identified limited information, knowledge, lack of local and indigenous indicators and dynamic variations of climate in various agro-ecological zones as some of the challenges in communication of climate change mitigations and adaptations in climate field school. The recommendations and conclusion include using participation approach for climate field school, encouragement partnerships of private, civil society organizations and International agencies, the use of good reforms institutional policies to support climate field school and consideration of social and gender considerations.

I. INTRODUCTION

Agriculture is very sensitive to climate and Climate variation is the major challenge to development of agriculture in Africa and the worldwide. Climate change is not only challenging to development of agriculture but it is threatening food security and livelihood conditions of many population according to Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Co-operation (2009). (Kurukulsuriya and Mendelson 2007), reported that agriculture in African is very sensitive to climate variations such that farmers are experiencing net revenue loss due to unstable in precipitations, flood, wide fire and drought. In a similar study ( Boko et al,. 2007), predicated that climate change on agricultural production have undesirable consequences on food security in African and this is expected to vary across and within countries of region spatially. Climate change is threatening agricultural system and it poses a serious danger of environmental disaster with high intense weather extreme events which is currently affecting livelihood of many low income countries in the world ( Schild,2010).

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