Unknown to her, an even bigger challenge was looming — the effect of climate change on farming communities in her area was becoming more rampant. Climate ChangeNigerian women farmers are adopting ingenious methods to address the effects of climate change, although they lament they may not be not economically sustainable. How Climate change births food scarcityClimate change makes agricultural development in Africa more challenging. A climate change expert, Olarenwaju Akintobi, explained that climate change was caused by the industrial age through the emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Local women farmers groanInterviews with seven smallholder women farmers across five local government areas in Nasarawa State showed that their experiences with climate change and herdsmen invasion are similar.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 13, 2021 09:00 UTC