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Community participation in land resources conservation and management: studies in the local government areas of Gombe State, Nigeria


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Umar, Saidu Alhassan and Omi, Fariba Samia and Utaberta, Nangkula and Ismail, Nor Atiah and Mohd Ariffin, Noor Fazamimah and Mohd Yunos, Mohd Yazid and Ismail, Sumarni (2015) Community participation in land resources conservation and management: studies in the local government areas of Gombe State, Nigeria. Advances in Environment Biology, 9 (24). pp. 38-45. ISSN 1995-0756; ESSN: 1998-1066

Abstract

Land degradation in forms of desertification, soil erosion, and pollution has become one of the challenges facing the entire universe. It results in loss of lives, property, and decrease in food crops, climatic changes, extinctions of animals and plants species among others. These problems still constitute a serious challenge in the 21st century. Government‟s approach to land resources conservation has been found to be insufficient in addressing the problem, resulting in call for participation of all stakeholders, including NGOs, CBOs, and other local community members, as well as the use of integrated and multi-dimensional approach to the problems of land degradation, yet not much success was recorded. This study attempts to identify the extent of community participation and factors influencing the participation in land resources conservation and management in the local government areas of Gombe State, Nigeria. Survey research method was employed in collecting data from 240 adult (aged 20-above) respondents of both sexes, scattered over 3 local Governments. To augment the short coming of quantitative research, 6 FGD sessions and 6 in-depth interviews were also conducted among the adult members of the communities, community leaders, and forestry officials. The greater part of the data was collected through Multi- Stage Cluster Sampling from 240 respondents, and the data analyzed, using SPSS to determine the relationship between participation and characteristics of individual respondents. Similarly, qualitative findings from the in-depth interviews and the FGD were used in complementing the quantitative data. The result of the findings revealed a very low level of community participation (especially women) in conservation and a continuous dominance of government limited conservation and management project. Factors such as poverty, inadequate conservation facilities, partisan politics, and lack of motivations are found to be the main influence, hindering participation in land resources conservation and management in the area of study.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Design and Architecture
Halal Products Research Institute
Publisher: AENSI Publisher
Keywords: Community; Conservation; Desertification; Drought; Land degradation; Land resources; Management; Participation
Depositing User: Ms. Ainur Aqidah Hamzah
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2022 08:55
Last Modified: 12 Feb 2022 02:49
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/44104
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