Abstract
The study assessed constraints to climate change adaptation strategies among maize farmers
in Northeastern, Nigeria. A Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed in select 337
respondents for the study. Frequency counts, mean, percentage, ranking and factor analysis
(PCA) were used to analyze the data. The results showed that over one-third (37.09%) of the
farmers’ age with mean of 40 fell within the age bracket of 41-50 years and majority (87.80%),
(60.8%) of the respondents were male and not members of any organization while most
(98.00%) of the farmers were married.. Findings further indicated that drought was the major
perceived cause of climate change (X=4.2) and farmers affirmed that land degradation causes
weather variability (X=3.9). The result concludes that significant reasons contributed to low
adaptation of improved climate change strategies among the respondents and respondents
were less likely to adapt climate change strategies due to unfavorable government policies.
The study suggested that socio-economic factor, environmental factor and climate information
factor, policy factor, institutional factor, weather factor, personal and disease control factor,
were the main factors affecting climate change adaptation strategies among maize farmers in
the study area.
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