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- Title
Pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe state, Nigeria.
- Authors
Eze, Jude Nwafor; Onokala, Patience Chinyelu
- Abstract
The study evaluates the degree and pattern of household vulnerability to desertification in Yobe State, Nigeria. Making the right decisions and efficient resources allocation to reduce household vulnerability to desertification requires an understanding of the factors that make a society vulnerable to environmental change. Strategies to reduce the impact of desertification in Nigeria have often been without understanding the spatial pattern of household vulnerability to the hazard. The study used the Integrated Household Vulnerability Index to proffer a solution to household vulnerability to desertification in the study area. The indicators of vulnerability (exposure, adaptive capacity, and sensitivity), were calculated to determine the pattern of household vulnerability to desertification. The study adopted an experimental survey design and the method utilized for this study was a questionnaire administrated to 400 households in the study area. The household vulnerability levels identified were 4, which include very high vulnerability, high vulnerability, low vulnerability and very low vulnerability. The spatial pattern of the household vulnerability levels in the study area tends to increase northward and decreases southward. The spatial pattern is due to a higher percentage of the total households with more wealth, technology and infrastructure to cope with desertification in the southern part than in the northern part of the study area. Therefore, the need to integrate the measures of desertification adaptation options into the development process, based on the spatial pattern of household vulnerability. These measures are poverty reduction, alternative sources of energy; enhance food security through good agricultural practices and development of cattle ranches.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; DESERTIFICATION; RANCHES; HOUSEHOLDS; AGRICULTURAL development; ALTERNATIVE fuels; RURAL poor
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2022, Vol 87, Issue 4, p2699
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10708-021-10395-5