TY - JOUR T1 - Impact of Climate Change Shock on Rice Productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria’s North Central Region TT - Impact of Climate Change Shock on Rice Productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria’s North Central Region AU - Sadıq, Sanusi AU - Sıngh, Paul Invinder AU - Ahmad, Muhammad Makarfi PY - 2021 DA - November JF - Anadolu University Journal of Faculty of Economics JO - Anadolu Economics PB - Anadolu Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2687-4563 SP - 119 EP - 133 VL - 3 IS - 2 LA - en AB - The consequence of climate change shock on arable crop productivity especially rice, the largest consumed food in the world is threatening the global food security and a light out of this dark is very pertinent for continuous human existence. In lieu of the foregoing, this research attempt to determine the impact and quantified the contribution of climate change shock vis-à-vis climate change shock versus endowment effect on rice productivity using crucial econometric tools viz. Stalling’s weather index, Chow F-statistics, Average treatment effect (ATE) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition model. A total of 360 farmers were drawn from the sampling frame through a multi-stage sampling technique and data elicitations were done through the use of structured questionnaire coupled with interview schedule. A cost-route approach was used to collect the field survey data during the 2020 cropping season. Succinctly, from the empirical evidences it was established that most (60.83%) of the farmers have their average rice productivity been affected by climate change shock. Furthermore, climate change shock had both short and long runs effect on the average rice productivity, thus making the production structural change of the vulnerable farmers poor in comparison to the non-vulnerable farmers. Besides, structural effect termed climate change shock accounts for approximately 89.37% of the yield gap/differential between the two groups while 10.63% owes to their endowment related factors. Therefore, the study enjoins affected farmers to adopt smart agricultural practices viz. emulation of peers not affected by climate change shock, thus enhancing the sustainability of the enterprise and rice food security in the studied area. KW - climate change KW - shock KW - yield KW - rice KW - Nigeria N2 - The consequence of climate change shock on arable crop productivity especially rice, the largest consumed food in the world is threatening the global food security and a light out of this dark is very pertinent for continuous human existence. In lieu of the foregoing, this research attempt to determine the impact and quantified the contribution of climate change shock vis-à-vis climate change shock versus endowment effect on rice productivity using crucial econometric tools viz. Stalling’s weather index, Chow F-statistics, Average treatment effect (ATE) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition model. A total of 360 farmers were drawn from the sampling frame through a multi-stage sampling technique and data elicitations were done through the use of structured questionnaire coupled with interview schedule. A cost-route approach was used to collect the field survey data during the 2020 cropping season. Succinctly, from the empirical evidences it was established that most (60.83%) of the farmers have their average rice productivity been affected by climate change shock. Furthermore, climate change shock had both short and long runs effect on the average rice productivity, thus making the production structural change of the vulnerable farmers poor in comparison to the non-vulnerable farmers. Besides, structural effect termed climate change shock accounts for approximately 89.37% of the yield gap/differential between the two groups while 10.63% owes to their endowment related factors. Therefore, the study enjoins affected farmers to adopt smart agricultural practices viz. emulation of peers not affected by climate change shock, thus enhancing the sustainability of the enterprise and rice food security in the studied area. CR - Adedeji, I.A., Tiku, N.E., Waziri-Ugwu, P.R. and Sanusi, S.O.(2017).The effect of climate change on rice production in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Agroeconomia Croatica, 7(1):1-13 CR - Amaefula, C., Okezie, C.A. and Mejeha, R.(2012).Risk attitude and insurance: A causal analysis. American Journal of Economics, 2(3): 26-32 UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aujfe/issue//929618 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1739622 ER -