Climate change: Oyo smallholder female farmers count losses, seek govt. support (ICI Nigeria)

International Center for Investigative Reporting published an article on how the biting effects of climate change on the global community took a bad twist for the smallholder women farmers in the state with a sudden stop in rainfall in 2020, leading to poor harvest for many of them. In an AGRODEP project paper, The potential impact of climate change on Nigerian agriculture, researchers examined how extreme weather conditions had affected the mean and variance of the yield of some food crops in some states over the period of 22 years (1991-2012). It indicated that the productivity of more than half of the staple crops in Nigeria was threatened by an increase in total annual rainfall and extreme temperature across states in Nigeria.