Extension's role and stakeholders' intervention in climate change advocacy

Abstract

The world's agricultural system has been terribly affected by climate change and consequently the future of agriculture,its practices and productivity is hampered. Hence, this paper presents the agricultural and environmental problemsassociated with climate change and seeks to proffer possible solutions through the intervention of extension services andstakeholders. It focuses on the role of agricultural extension and its immense import in influencing crop productionpractices that will ensure sustainability and improve soil management. To effect a change in a diverging economy withcritical climatic conditions, it becomes imperative that scientific, technological and conceptual policy practices that willreduce negative environmental impacts must be integrated and implemented.