Farmers’perceptions on cultivation and the impacts of climate change on goods and services provided by Garcinia kola in Nigeria

作     者：Onyebuchi Patrick Agwu Adama Bakayoko Saka Oladunni Jimoh Porembski Stefan 

作者机构：WASCAL Graduate Research Program on Climate Change and BiodiversityUniversite´Felix Houphouet BoignyBP 165Abidjan 31Côte d’Ivoire Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire(CSRS)UniversitéNangui AbrogouaAbidjanCôte d’Ivoire Department of Social and Environmental ForestryUniversity of IbadanIbadanNigeria Institute for Biodiversity ResearchUniversity of RostockRostockGermany 

出 版 物：《Ecological Processes》 (生态过程（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第7卷第1期

页      面：425-434页

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学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 

基　　金：The study was funded by West African Climate Change and Adapted Land use programme through the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research 

主　　题：Garcinia kola Propagation Multipurpose species Farmers Climate change Harmattan season 

摘      要：Background:Garcinia kola is an indigenous multipurpose tree species commonly found in the tropical rain forest zone of West and Central *** economic,ecological,and socio-cultural benefits for people,they have potentials to improve the regional and local income generation to the farmers but the cultivation of the species is very limited in ***:The study investigated cultivation and farmers’perceptions on the impacts of climate change on goods and services provided by *** in *** questioners and interviews were *** data obtained was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistic such as frequency,percentage,chi-square,and multinomial logit regressions with SPSS Version 20 and R software Version ***:The results show that farmers are presently not cultivating ***,and most of the available stands were inherited from *** farmers still believe it is only God that can make *** to germinate;however,information about the new improved methods of raising *** was not spread across farmers’*** 93%of these farmers were not aware of these new methods,and the only means they raise the species is by picking the wildlings that regenerate naturally close to mother tree and are rarely *** finding also shows that farmers are well aware of climate change and its impact on crop productivity is not clear to *** result shows that five explanatory variables(age,gender,marital status,education level,household size and primary occupation)are the main factors significantly influencing farmers’perception of climate change and the cultivation of the *** interview section,the farmers reported variability of Harmattan season influences fruit production of the species;according to them,increase in Harmattan season usually leads to increase in fruiting of ***:Based on our findings,all the 215 respondent interviewed agree that climatic variability influences the availabi