Extension’s role and stakeholders’ intervention in climate change advocacy

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 174 - 176, 20.12.2018

Taiwo Odeleye

https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.18030

Cited By: 2

Abstract

The world’s agricultural system has been terribly affected
by climate change and consequently the future of agriculture, its practices and
productivity is hampered. Hence, this paper presents the agricultural and
environmental problems associated with climate change and seeks to proffer
possible solutions through the intervention of extension services and
stakeholders. It focuses on the role of agricultural extension and its immense
import in influencing crop production practices that will ensure sustainability
and improve soil management. To effect a change in a diverging economy with  critical climatic conditions, it becomes
imperative that scientific, technological and conceptual policy practices that
will reduce negative environmental impacts must be integrated and implemented.

Keywords

Agricultural advisory services, Agricultural production practices, Climate change, Mitigating factors

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