Abstract This study aims to assess wheat, mustard, and barley cultivating marginalized farmers’ (landholding ≤1 hectare) climate change perceptions, impacts, and adaptation strategies in Alwar and Jhunjhunun districts of Rajasthan, India. Purposive sampling of 50 marginal farmers was carried out in winter 2020. A specially designed, developed and pre-tested questionnaire was used as a tool […]

Abstract This study investigated the assessment of flood vulnerability in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling and simple random sampling techniques provided the sampling framework for administration of 400 questionnaires across the entire sampling/spatial unit. Descriptive statistics, 5-points and 3-points Likert scale framework were deployed in data analyses and presentation. The study found that inadequate […]

Abstract This paper examined housing conditions and the prevalence of respiratory diseases in three low socioeconomic districts in Abuja. Primary data were acquired through the Multi-Stage sampling technique from three districts namely Mabushi, Utako and Gudu in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The first stage involved the selection of 270 housing units. The second stage […]

Abstract Akure became the administrative headquarters of Ondo State, Nigeria in 1976 and since then, it has witnessed rapid developmental changes in terms of physical landscape, city growth and urban sprawl. These agents of Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) are capable of creating environmental problems such as transportation, land degradation, pollution among others. […]

Abstract This study has attempted to investigate and analyze the land use changes that have occurred in Kaduna North Local Government Area between 1993 and 2007. In the study, an integrated approach involving remote sensing and GIS was used for evaluation of urban growth and its impact on land use in the study area. The […]

In different regions of Nigeria, floods have increased dramatically, affecting millions of people and inflicting huge economic damage. Flood disasters can be attributed to the unnecessary risks people take when they encroach on floodplains. Flood hazard maps are important to integrate geospatial and temporal data in the same computational environment that allows risk assessment, modeling […]

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) was a government initiated reform effort to benefit a majority of land hunger-black Zimbabweans through the compulsory acquisition of vast tracks of land previously owned by white minority. Courtesy of the FTLRP, a majority of Zimbabweans benefited pierces of land with a view to improve their livelihoods. The […]

Abstract Rainfall has been widely studied in terms of distribution over space, time and trends including onset and cessation. In any regional study of agricultural production rainfall is therefore of fundamental importance. This is very useful for decision making in issues of food security and other sectors affected by rainfall. This study seeks to assess […]

Abstract This research focuses on the ability of remote sensing vegetation index acquired from the Landsat-8 operational land imager (OLI)/thematic infrared sensor (TIRS) and Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT-6 and 7) HRV, HRVIR, HRG system as effective indicator to measure rice growing condition and predicting yield rate. The normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVI), […]

Abstract Spatial health issues have become a major item in health discussions; it determines the level of accessibility and by extension its effects on cost/income, wellbeing among others all of which are determinants of overall development of any society. Generally, there is uneven distribution of health facilities, with its attendant problems globally. One of the […]