Authors : Obaniyi Kayode Samuel, Kolawole Ayorinde Ebenezer, Ajala Abiodun Oladayo, Owolabi Ayotunde Olayinka and Akangbe Jones Adebola
Abstract: This study reviewed the effects of environmental change on farming, nourishment security and biological system in Sub Sahara Africa. It is apparent that Nigeria as a nation has experienced the outcome of environmental change in the regions of harvest, animals creation, fishery and ranger service. The effects of environmental change have been felt to the degree that, the nation has not had the capacity to discover answer for the issue. Nigeria has not had the capacity to encourage her tremendous populace, since, sustenance generation is relied upon climatic condition. Antagonistic condition, for example, dry season, flooding, cruel climate condition as far as high temperature and sporadic precipitation has been ascribed to our nourishment security status. The adjustment and alleviation procedures to environmental change have not been commonly embraced in Nigeria as a result of low versatile limit and the dimension of consciousness of environmental change by the poor ranchers. Likewise, absence of comprehension of ramifications of some horticultural practices utilized by ranchers during the time spent creation in Nigeria may have extraordinary effect on environmental change. In this manner, it is reasoned that exercises that fuel environmental change in Nigeria ought to be discontinued while attention to environmental change among rustic ranchers ought to be escalated. Country should put a restriction on unpredictable cutting of tree and wood in the timberland for fuel or different purposes and create elective wellspring of fuel for the provincial family unit ranchers. Moreover, Nigeria should put to law the disallowance of shrubbery or backwoods being determined to flame, for any reason and support water system cultivating among rustic ranchers for maintainable sustenance generation. At long last, civil, mechanical and agricultural engineers ought to likewise research together with agriculturist in waste development to control flood and in arrangements of financial structures that can lessen the effects of environmentl change in Nigeria.
Obaniyi Kayode Samuel, Kolawole Ayorinde Ebenezer, Ajala Abiodun Oladayo, Owolabi Ayotunde Olayinka and Akangbe Jones Adebola, 2019. Environmental Change Impacts on Agribusiness and Food Security in Sub Sahara Africa: A Practical Way Forward. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 9639-9644.