Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria
Climate change is a global reality and a major concern of many countries of the world. Its average impacts are the same globally but with some regional peculiarities. This paper reviewed the global events of climate change and its reality in Nigeria. It observed that the world’s climatic elements h...
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Joint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)
2020-12-01
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Climate change is a global reality and a major concern of many countries of the world. Its average impacts are the same globally but with some regional peculiarities. This paper reviewed the global events of climate change and its reality in Nigeria. It observed that the world’s climatic elements have been undergoing changing pattern for a long period. Its reality in Nigeria was seen in changing rain pattern, relative humidity, atmospheric temperature, rising sea level, coastal flooding, erosion, desertification and drought among other indicators of climate change. These events were viewed vis-à-vis their impacts on nutrition security. The paper related these events to such drivers of food insecurity as food shortages; increase in crop and animal diseases; shortage of portable water; poor sanitation; loss of rural livelihood and different forms of pollution-related diseases. Measures were suggested for integration into government programmes and policy that will help in mitigating and adapting to the impact of climate change on nutrition security
Keywords: Climate change, nutrition security, mitigating, adapting, Nigeria
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| spelling | doaj.art-78364fa8d8d14f36af36717c6107d4782024-04-02T19:48:46ZengJoint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management2659-15022659-14992020-12-01241110.4314/jasem.v24i11.2Climate Change and Nutrition Security in NigeriaMO IfeanachoHO Okudu Climate change is a global reality and a major concern of many countries of the world. Its average impacts are the same globally but with some regional peculiarities. This paper reviewed the global events of climate change and its reality in Nigeria. It observed that the world’s climatic elements have been undergoing changing pattern for a long period. Its reality in Nigeria was seen in changing rain pattern, relative humidity, atmospheric temperature, rising sea level, coastal flooding, erosion, desertification and drought among other indicators of climate change. These events were viewed vis-à-vis their impacts on nutrition security. The paper related these events to such drivers of food insecurity as food shortages; increase in crop and animal diseases; shortage of portable water; poor sanitation; loss of rural livelihood and different forms of pollution-related diseases. Measures were suggested for integration into government programmes and policy that will help in mitigating and adapting to the impact of climate change on nutrition security Keywords: Climate change, nutrition security, mitigating, adapting, Nigeria https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jasem/article/view/202022Climate change, nutrition security, mitigating, adapting, Nigeria |
| spellingShingle | MO Ifeanacho HO Okudu Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management Climate change, nutrition security, mitigating, adapting, Nigeria |
| title | Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria |
| title_full | Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria |
| title_short | Climate Change and Nutrition Security in Nigeria |
| title_sort | climate change and nutrition security in nigeria |
| topic | Climate change, nutrition security, mitigating, adapting, Nigeria |
| url | https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jasem/article/view/202022 |
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