Abstract
This study investigated effect of building resilience against climate change for sustainable agricultural practices among small-scale yam farmers
in Ondo State, Nigeria. Three hundred and five small-scale yam farmers were selected through multistage random sampling procedure. Information
were collected on socio-economic characteristics, resilience building strategies, challenges of building resilience by yam farmers with the aid of
structured questionnaire. The descriptive statistics-mean, standard deviation, independent t-test analysis, Cohen’s d and logistic regression
analysis were the analytical tools employed for data collected. The result showed 69.1% of yam farmers built resilience strategies against climate
change with 48.6±7.5years as mean age of yam farmers with male household heads dominant and with primary education. The resilience building
strategies in yam production included intercropping, crop rotation, weeding, and pests/diseases control, among others. Finding also revealed
significant difference in yam production after building resilience against climate change. It was discovered that, age of yam farmers, household
size, cultivated land size, access to climate information and credit were factors influencing resilience building among yam farmers in the study
area. It was recommended that youth should be encouraged in yam production, training and education, access to credit and climate information
should be encouraged among small-scale yam farmers in the study area.
Keywords: Resilience building, climate change, small-scale farmers, intercropping.
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