Emerging Role of Extension Services in Strengthening the Capacity of Farmers’ Resilience to Climate Change in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper described the climate-resilient technologies and practices as well as the benefits associated with the adoption of such technologies and practices. The paper explored the role of extension services on how farmers’ resilience can be strengthened to ensure food security in the changing climate in Nigeria. The paper also identified the approaches/strategies to extension services in strengthening the resilience capacity of farmers to climate change. Then, the implications for extension services for strengthening farmers’ resilience to climate change were drawn and presented herein. The paper concluded that, there is a need for agricultural extension service providers to extend their mandates and broaden their scope by connecting and working with multiple actors and groups within and beyond the agriculture sector for collective action in strengthening climate change resilience in the agriculture sector.