Empowering Women for Community-Driven Climate Resilience Farming Practices in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State

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@article{1713490,
      author = {Christiana Uzoaru Okorie, Rebecca Edem Bassey },
      title = {Empowering Women for Community-Driven Climate Resilience Farming Practices in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2025},
      volume = {9},
      number = {6},
      pages = {2427-2446},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1713490.pdf},
      abstract = {This study investigated how empowering women can foster community-driven climate-resilient farming practices in the Emohua Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State. The study was guided by four research objectives and four research questions. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. One hundred ninety-six registered members of women's community-based farmers' cooperatives were chosen as the sample from the population of 250 female farmers. A modified 4-point Likert scale Questionnaire titled ?Women Empowerment for Community-Driven Climate Resilience Farming Questionnaire (WECDCRFQ)? was used to collect data. Frequency counts, percentages, mean scores, and standard deviation were used to analyse the collected data. The findings showed that in Emohua LGA, women's empowerment has significantly increased women farmers' involvement in climate-resilient farming initiatives, their capacity to adapt to and adopt climate-related agricultural techniques, their ability to recover from climate-related shocks, and their capacity to transform through creative practices, diversification, long-term planning, and collaborative problem-solving. Based on the findings, the study recommended gender-responsive extension, financial, and policy measures; targeted and inclusive empowerment interventions; improved adaptation-focused empowerment programmes; and continuous capacity-building programmes to increase climate resilience among Nigerian women farmers.},
      keywords = {Women Empowerment, Community-Driven, Climate-Related Risks, Recovery Capacity, Climate-Resilience Farming Practices},
      month = {December},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I6-1713490}
  }