ABSTRACT:

The study analysed the determinants of farmers’ adoption to climate change adaptation strategies under the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Jigawa state. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 321 farmers participating in IFAD-CASP programme as respondents. Data were collected with the use of a well-structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The result of the study showed that mean age was 35 years. About (60.00%) were married, with a household size mean of 7 persons some (58.30%) of the farmers had no formal education. The respondents had a mean of 12 years of farming experience. Majority (100%) of the respondents had contact with IFAD-CASP extension officer, and also (86.44%) got information on climate change from IFAD- CASP extension officer. The result also shows that out of the eight adaptation strategies four of them has higher adaptation, construction of animal drinking point, community nursery establishment, yearly seasonal rainfall prediction and soil and water conservation technology, with a mean score of 2.04, 2.13, 2.72 and 2.5 respectively. Result from the inferential statistics show that six of the predictive variables: age of the respondents, years of farming experience, number of visit by IFAD-CASP extension officer, farmers’ perception of IFAD-CASP strategies, membership of cooperatives, access to credit were all positively significant at 5% to influence adapting of IFAD-CASP strategies. It was recommended that promotion of a given adaptation strategies should consider the agro-ecological setting of the area, to expand adult education so that improve education level of farmers., promoting farmer access to credit is vital to secure immediate need of money for the very purpose of purchasing farm inputs and meet the costs associated with using various adaptation strategies.