TY  - JOUR
T1  - Adaptive Response Problems of Subsistence Farmers to Rainfall Changes in South-Eastern Nigeria
AU - Afangideh, A.I. AU - Akpan, P.A. AU - Udofia, E.P. 
JO  - Environmental Research Journal
VL  - 6
IS  - 4
SP  - 254
EP  - 258
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1994-5396
DO  - erj.2012.254.258
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=erj.2012.254.258
KW  - Rainfall change
KW  -R-mode factor analysis
KW  -subsistence farmers
KW  -adaptive response
KW  -official information
KW  -farming communities
AB  - The multivariate (R-mode factor analysis) technique was utilized to determine the main adaptive response problems of subsistence farmers to the changing annual rainfall pattern in South-Eastern Nigeria. A total of one thousand two hundred and seventy nine respondent farmers were randomly drawn from sixty farming communities in Cross River, Abia and Akwa Ibom States, Nigeria, a six dimensional solution from an initial fifteen was arrived at accounting for almost 70% of the variations in the original problem matrix. These major problems include the lack of climate information, illiteracy, awareness problem, fertilizers and funding problems, poor agricultural and weather extension services and difficulties in accessing official information. Non-governmental organisations and governments should be much more interested in climate change issues and act proactively to ameliorate the problem.
ER  -