Presentation from ICWES 15 Conference - July 2011, Australia

1. TITLE:
Combating Global Warming and Its Effects
on Sustainable Agriculture: Climate
Change - Responsive Agriculture
Education Approach

2. Introduction
Method
Results
Conclusion

3. Introduction
• Background.
• Education aims at making an individual
to appreciate the cultural, social and
physical structure of his/her society and
prepares the individual for functionality
and necessary adjustment for survival
within the society (Ugwu, 2003).

4. • CCRAE is a form of education in agriculture
and its related disciplines which provides a
deeper focus on Global Warming and Climate
change.

5. Concept of CCRAE – Depicts
Agriculture Education as it relates to
Climate Change

6. Philosophy of CCRAE

7. • General awareness on climate change
• Basic knowledge on climate change
• Causes of Global Warming- including
depletion of Ozone layer and how it
relates to human and agricultural
activities

8. Are there
• strategies,
• attitudes,
• skills/ practices and
• Technology
that need to be adopted to combat GW and its
influences on agricultural developments?
• Teach them to the “Budding Scientists.”

9. • to propose a more intensive Climate-
Change-Responsive Agriculture Education
for Nigerian universities (CCRAE) and
• Present the proposed CCRAE curriculum
contents, with a view to make relevant
input for combating Global warming (GW)
and its effects on sustainable agriculture.

10. • It was a survey with comparative research design
• Population comprised a.) Environmental Studies, b)
Agriculture and c.) Curriculum experts
• Research instruments were ;
1. Focused Grouped Discussions (FGDs) and
2. Validated Questionnaire with a four-point rate
scale and the benchmark at 2.0 points.
• Research questions were postulated and
hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance.
• Statistical tools included Descriptive and Analysis of
Variance.

11. Items of Need for CCRAE Mean Rema
rk
1. Creation of awareness for global 3.83 *
warming in future agriculturists
2. Creation of awareness on the effects 3.66 *
of global warming on agriculture
3. Spreading the awareness of GW in 3.62 *
learners’immediate communities.
4. Motivation of learners to adopt 3.96 *
practices that reduce green house
emission in future.

12. Results Cont.
5 Development of technologies 3.97 *
that would reduce the effects of
GW on agriculture in future
7. Facilitation of food security in 3.50 *
the future
8 Reduction of future land 3.49 *
degradation
9 Preservation of biodiversity 3.76 *

13. S/N Proposed Selected Curriculum Contents Mean Remark
(Courses) CCRAE
1. Introduction to Global warming concept and 3.54 *
Sources of Green house emission/ gases
2. Effects of Climate change on Agriculture and 3.02 *
agricultural environments
3. Agricultural Climatology and Ecosystem 3.71 *
Relations
4 Soil Management and Preservation 3.43 *
Technology Education
5. Farm waste Management and recycling and 3.61 *
Use of Renewable Energy in Agriculture

14. Results Cont.
6. Climate Change and Crop paste/ 3.86 *
disease Management
7. Animal Diseases Control, Heat Stress 3.90 *
Management and Temperature
Regulation Strategies.
8 . Water cycles and Water Resource 3.54 *
Management in Agriculture
9. International Co-operation for 3.47 *
Environmental Policies and Protection
Education

15. Results on Hypotheses and FGDs
• There were no significant differences in the
mean responses of the research groups on;
• 1) the need to proposed CCRAE and
• 2) the Selected Curriculum Content
proposed for CCRAE.
• Summaries of the FGDs re-affirmed the need
for CCRAE curriculum contents.

16. Conclusion
• Agriculture education needs to keep
pace with changes and practices in
society, the concept of life long
learning.
• Climate change in recent years has
been a great concern, thus the need for
CCRAE as one of the ways to fight GW.

17. THANKS
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