Nigeria: Travails of Climate Change

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Nigeria: Travails of Climate Change

[This Day] While Nigeria dithers on taking concerted action to combat climate change, its impact on the nation's economy is unmistakable. For instance, women farmers who constitute 70 to 80 percent of the agriculture labour force in the country are at the mercy of climate change, with a resultant effect on food security. Governments have at best been indifferent. In this special report, Omolabake Fasogbon x-rays the travails of women farmers in Lagos state and Nigeria as a whole, noting that they are hardly ever capt

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