Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern. Across Nigeria, changing weather patterns and flooding are increasingly affecting agricultural production, household livelihoods, and food security, with potentially significant consequences for rural women who depend on smallholder farming.

Against this backdrop, a research team led by Dr Judith Ifunanya Ani, with Dr Oluwayemisi K. Adeleke, Dr Loveth C. Ode-Omenka and Dr Brendaline B. Ngwengeh, is commencing the dissemination of findings from a CODESRIA-funded research project titled “Climate Change-Induced Flooding: Implications for Food Security and Income among Female Smallholder Farmers in Nigeria.”

The study examined how climate-change-associated flooding affects the food security and income of female smallholder farmers and highlighted the wider social and economic dimensions of climate vulnerability.

The first dissemination workshop will take place on Wednesday, 7 October 2026, at 4:00 p.m. WAT.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to share the study’s findings and engage researchers, academics, practitioners, and other stakeholders in discussions around climate change, gender, agriculture, livelihoods, and food security.

The workshop marks the beginning of a series of planned dissemination activities aimed at taking the evidence beyond the research process and into wider scholarly and policy conversations.

Funded by: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).