Nigeria: Flood-Ridden Farmers Need More Help Adapting to Climate Change

3 May 2017
opinion

Oko-Amakom — Okechukwu Onwuma still remembers the painful day heavy floods destroyed his small farm in southern Nigeria's Delta State.

"It was in November 2012, and the flood didn't spare anything in this community," the 45-year-old said, hunched over a small heap of yam on his farm, near Oko-Amakom. "Farmers cried bitterly, and nobody helped us," he said. "The water covered our farmlands and homes, and displaced thousands of people."

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