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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 14-16, 2010, Zurich}}\\[1ex] \Large{``World Food System  ---\\A Contribution from Europe''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Motivations for Adoption of Climate Risk Management Strategies by Arable Crop Farmers in Ife Area, Osun State, Nigeria\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Adetunji Kehinde, Bowen University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Bowen University Road, 23402~Iwo, Nigeria, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{tjgreenk@yahoo.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Adetunji Kehinde$^{1}$, Adebimpe Adegunloye$^{2}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Bowen University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Nigeria}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Bowen University, Agricultural Economics and Extension, }}}
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Largely, food production by arable crop farmers in Nigeria is a peasant activity. Several research findings already show that the tropics and the developing world would be the worst hit by the adverse consequences of climate change. Sad enough, Large proportion of the population in Nigeria are already subjected to other stresses such as poverty, illiteracy, food insecurity, malnutrition and diseases all of which could interact with climate change to further diminish their wellbeing. The issue of creating a defense against climate change mainly revolves around farmers' level of awareness of climate change and the capacity and capability to adopt necessary climate mitigations or adaptations strategies. In view of this, the study, investigated the factors that motivated arable crop farmers in Ife area, Osun state Nigeria to adopt climate risk management strategies on their farms. Data was collected from 120 randomly selected farmers in Ife central local government area of Osun State. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the logit regression analysis. Results show that \mbox{62.1\,\%} of the farmers' age falls between 20 and 45years, \mbox{89.1\,\%} of the farmers have formal education, \mbox{42.6\,\%} of the farmers have between 2--5years farming experience, \mbox{93.1\,\%} have between 1--\mbox{5\,ha}, \mbox{59.7\,\%} have knowledge of climate change while \mbox{31.1\,\%} apply climate risk management strategies. Furthermore, the marginal coefficients of the logit regression indicate that farming experience and farmers' knowledge of climate change were the two important factors that motivated farmers to adopt climate risk management strategies. While farming experience reduced the probability ($p > 0.10$) of adopting climatic risk management strategies, farmers' knowledge of climate change significantly increased the probability ($p > 0.01$) of adopting it. The study recommends sustained increase in the quality of information dissemination on climate issue through competent extension officers while farmers' wealth of experience should be supported with relevant capacity building opportunities that would help boost their food production potential in the study area.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Climate adaptation, food production, logit analysis.  
\index[key]{Climate adaptation}
\index[key]{Food!production}
\index[key]{Logit analysis.  }
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