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2014(Vol.6, Issue:7)
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Farmer’s On-farm Traditional Mitigation, Techniques against Climate Change Impacts in Selected Lgas of Kano State

Lawrence Ejeh, Udeh and Ojonigu F. Ati
Corresponding Author:  Lawrence Ejeh 
Submitted: October 31, 2012
Accepted: February 01, 2013
Published: July 20, 2014
Abstract:
This study assessed the perceptions and observations of rural farmers in selected communities of two local government areas of Kano state on climate change and its impacts on their livelihood strategies over four decades. It explores some traditional initiatives or techniques taken by the local communities to minimize climate change impacts and effects. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) were organized to collect and analyze vulnerability context on climate change and its impacts on various sectors of the economy in the LGAs such as: agriculture, livestock, infrastructure, water sources etc. similarly, information on available service providers, Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (KNRDA) and their contributions were sourced through secondary sources. It was observed that local communities of the selected villages/towns in Kano State were facing challenges of climate change overtime and were adapting traditional techniques as against it. Some of on-farm strategies such as zero or minimum tillage. Alteration of planting date, are environmentally friendly and socially acceptable. However, these traditional adaptive techniques of the villagers are not strong enough to cope with current scourge of climate change in the area.

Key words:  Agriculture, adaptation, climate change, livelihood, mitigation, perception, traditional techniques
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Lawrence Ejeh, Udeh and Ojonigu F. Ati, . Farmer’s On-farm Traditional Mitigation, Techniques against Climate Change Impacts in Selected Lgas of Kano State. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, (7): 353-357.
ISSN (Online):  2041-0492
ISSN (Print):   2041-0484
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