TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparative study of farming and fishing households’ livelihood vulnerability in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
AU - Onyenekwe, Chinasa Sylvia
AU - Sarpong, Daniel Bruce
AU - Egyir, Irene Susana
AU - Opata, Patience Ifeyinwa
AU - Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Newcastle University.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Multiple stressors such as climate shocks, environmental degradation and resource conflicts may pose a great challenge for African communities struggling to adapt to climate change. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence on the differential vulnerabilities of farming and fishing households to these triple stressors. Using a household survey in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, we compare the vulnerability of farming and fishing households. We find that the farming households were more exposed to the triple stressors while the fishing households were more sensitive to the triple stressors owing to their poor physical and natural asset base. In addition, we find that the two groups share similar adaptive capacity and composite vulnerability scores. Overall, interventions such as credit schemes can enable fishing households to address their livelihood disruptions and build their asset endowment, and climate-responsive interventions such as early warning systems can partly reduce the climate exposure of farming households.
AB - Multiple stressors such as climate shocks, environmental degradation and resource conflicts may pose a great challenge for African communities struggling to adapt to climate change. Yet, there is limited empirical evidence on the differential vulnerabilities of farming and fishing households to these triple stressors. Using a household survey in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, we compare the vulnerability of farming and fishing households. We find that the farming households were more exposed to the triple stressors while the fishing households were more sensitive to the triple stressors owing to their poor physical and natural asset base. In addition, we find that the two groups share similar adaptive capacity and composite vulnerability scores. Overall, interventions such as credit schemes can enable fishing households to address their livelihood disruptions and build their asset endowment, and climate-responsive interventions such as early warning systems can partly reduce the climate exposure of farming households.
KW - agricultural households
KW - climate shocks
KW - conflict
KW - credit schemes
KW - environmental degradation
KW - vulnerability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138256736&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2107495
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2022.2107495
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138256736
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 67
SP - 217
EP - 241
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
IS - 1
ER -