EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE IN NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Climate which is the atmospheric condition of a particular location over a long period of time may under its harsh and abnormal events poses serious threat to the socio-economy of the developing nations especially on households' consumption expenditure pattern. On the other hand, this atmospheric condition of a particular location over a short period of time constitute weather which it's characteristics over West Africa are usually driven by the pressure and wind systems whose dynamics depend on the surface pressure system over North Africa and over the South Atlantic Ocean. Nigeria climate is largely dictated by the seasonal northward and southward oscillatory movement of the inter-tropical discontinuity (ITD). The moist southwesterly winds from the South Atlantic Ocean, which is the source of moisture needed for rainfall and thunderstorms to occur, prevail over the country during the rainy season (April-October). In reverse, northeasterly winds which raise and transport dust particle...