ABSTRACT:

The study assess the climate smart-agricultural practices adopted on food security among arable crop farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A sample unit of 120 respondents from each ADP Zones was used for the study through a multistage random sampling procedure. The data were analysed using descriptive statistical tools like percentage, frequency counts, mean score and standard deviation. Majority of the respondents were males (65.8%), married (67.5%) with secondary education (40.8%) and no-formal (24.2%). Mean age of the respondents is 43 years, average farming experience of 12 years, household size of 5 persons (99.2%) and farm size of 3 hectares (82.5%). Majority of the respondents were aware (86.0%) of climate smart agricultural practices. The main sources of information on climate smart practices is extension agents (30.0%). The adopted practices are cultivating short duration crop varieties, mulching, cover cropping and crop rotation (0.34±0.48) and inadequate training (0.29±0.46) amongst others. It was recommended that sources of awareness with wider spread should be used for information dissemination on climate smart practices, extension services should be strengthened and made proactive to be able to live to expectation of spreading information on smart-agricultural practices. Socio-economic factors that will foster positive perception of climate smart practices should be done and periodic capacity building and advisory services should be done to assist the clienteles to be abreast of current information on climate smart practices.