Assessment of efficiency of IFAD-CASP weather and climate services delivery in Sokoto and Katsina states, Nigeria

IF 3 3区地球科学 Q2 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1016/j.pce.2025.103961

Amina Ibrahim Inkani , Sani Abubakar Mashi , Obaro Dominic Oghenejabor , Safirat Sani

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This paper investigates IFAD-CASP's role in promoting weather and climate services (WCS) adoption among farmers in Sokoto and Katsina states of Nigeria, where the project ran from 2013 to 2021. Using a mixed-method approach, the study surveyed 595 farmers and conducted key informant interviews (KIIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) with farmers, agrometeorologists, and extension officers in both program states and a control state (Nasarawa). A student's t-test assessed differences in farmers' awareness and use of WCS, while qualitative data underwent rigorous thematic and content analysis through transcription, coding, thematic and content analysis, comparative and framework analysis, triangulation, and narrative analysis, ensuring a rigorous and comprehensive interpretation of participant perspectives. Findings show that IFAD-CASP significantly improved the uptake of only one of NiMet's five WCS products, with limited overall utilization due to weak linkages between WCS producers, enablers (e.g., extension officers, media practitioners), and end-users (farmers). The study calls for stronger institutional collaborations, engaging public and private media, ICT experts, extension services, farmer groups, and climate and social scientists to enhance WCS development, dissemination, and adoption in line with farmers' needs. Such collaborations aim to build a comprehensive enterprise that facilitates the development, collation, dissemination, and utilization of WCS products aligned closely with farmers' needs and expectations.

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对尼日利亚索科托和卡齐纳州农发基金- casp天气和气候服务提供效率的评估

本文调查了农发基金- casp在促进尼日利亚索科托州和卡齐纳州农民采用天气和气候服务（WCS）方面的作用，该项目于2013年至2021年在这两个州实施。该研究采用混合方法对595名农民进行了调查，并与项目州和对照州（Nasarawa）的农民、农业气象学家和推广官员进行了关键信息访谈（KIIs）和焦点小组讨论（fgd）。学生的t检验评估了农民对WCS的认知和使用差异，定性数据通过转录、编码、主题和内容分析、比较和框架分析、三角测量和叙事分析进行了严格的主题和内容分析，确保了对参与者观点的严格和全面的解释。调查结果表明，农发基金- casp显著提高了NiMet五种WCS产品中只有一种产品的使用率，由于WCS生产者、推动者（如推广官员、媒体从业人员）和最终用户（农民）之间的联系薄弱，总体利用率有限。该研究呼吁加强机构合作，让公共和私营媒体、信息通信技术专家、推广服务机构、农民团体以及气候和社会科学家参与进来，根据农民的需求加强WCS的开发、传播和采用。这种合作旨在建立一个综合性企业，促进WCS产品的开发、整理、传播和利用，与农民的需求和期望密切相关。

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Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 地学-地球科学综合

CiteScore

5.40

自引率

2.70%

发文量

176

审稿时长

31.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Physics and Chemistry of the Earth is an international interdisciplinary journal for the rapid publication of collections of refereed communications in separate thematic issues, either stemming from scientific meetings, or, especially compiled for the occasion. There is no restriction on the length of articles published in the journal. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth incorporates the separate Parts A, B and C which existed until the end of 2001. Please note: the Editors are unable to consider submissions that are not invited or linked to a thematic issue. Please do not submit unsolicited papers. The journal covers the following subject areas: -Solid Earth and Geodesy: (geology, geochemistry, tectonophysics, seismology, volcanology, palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism, electromagnetism and potential fields, marine and environmental geosciences as well as geodesy). -Hydrology, Oceans and Atmosphere: (hydrology and water resources research, engineering and management, oceanography and oceanic chemistry, shelf, sea, lake and river sciences, meteorology and atmospheric sciences incl. chemistry as well as climatology and glaciology). -Solar-Terrestrial and Planetary Science: (solar, heliospheric and solar-planetary sciences, geology, geophysics and atmospheric sciences of planets, satellites and small bodies as well as cosmochemistry and exobiology).