Effect Of Global Warming On The Business Activities Of Fish Farmers In Lagos, Nigeria

Abstract

The study sought to investigate the effect of global warming on the business activities of fish farmers in Lagos. The study employed survey research design, through the administration of structured questionnaires on some selected fish farmers in Badagry and Epe Local Government Areas of Lagos State. The research instrument (questionnaires) was validated using content validity index while the reliability of the instrument was tested through test-retest method by conducting a pilot study which gave a value of 0.880, 0.901 and 0.719, rising earth temperature, rising water level and business activities respectively, which indicated that the instrument was reliable. The data collected was tested using categorical regression with the aid of SPSS version 24. The findings revealed that global warming (measured by rising earth temperature and rising water level) is negatively related to the business activities of fish farmers in Lagos, with coefficient and p-value of -0.65, p-value<0.05 and -0.71, p-value<0.05 respectively. It can, therefore, be concluded that rising earth temperature and rising water level have an inverse relationship with the business activities of fish farmers in Lagos, Nigeria. It is recommended that the government should come up with eco-friendly policies as well as liaising with other nations to combat global warming. Fish farmers should consider the deployment of other techniques that can mitigate the effect of global warming on business activities of fish in Lagos. This tends to aid the attainment of the second and fourteenth United Nations' sustainable development goals (Zero Hunger and life below water).