Environmental Changes and Food Security in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Emmanuel Rotimi Adegboyega and Jimoh. Temitayo Owolabi
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Emmanuel Rotimi Adegboyega: Department of Geography and Planning Science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti
Jimoh. Temitayo Owolabi: Department of Geography and Planning Science, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2024, vol. 8, issue 3, 1884-1892

Abstract: This study aims at evaluating the role of Geo-spatial techniques in vegetation cover analysis and mapping, environmental changes and food security in Nigeria. The challenges of food security in Nigeria especially in urban centres are enormous. The unmitigated rural-urban drift as a result of socio-economic development has made it imperative to address the problem of food security in the study area. Also, the issue of rapid urban development without appropriate attention given to the important issue of food security with persistent deteriorating infrastructure for urban food processing has led to rapid price changes, in food and other agricultural products. This study, therefore, attempts to demonstrate that the recent advancements in remote sensing integration with Geographic Information System technologies provide powerful tools for mapping and detecting changes in land use and land cover using Ado-Ekiti as a case study. The digital image processing techniques of remote sensing (RS) was employed to enable speedy, accurate and objective interpretation of the multispectral data used for the study, in order to understand the extent, rate and the magnitude of land use and land cover dynamics in the study area. The study reveals that the agricultural land and natural vegetation have the highest change. Much of their land areas were converted to built-up areas for the three study epochs (1992,2007,2022). The study concludes that there is a progressive encroachment of built-up areas to other land use in the study area, thereby resulting in significant environmental changes and affecting food security.

Date: 2024
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