Author: Chima Daniel Nwosu
Co-Author: Adesope, Olufemi Martins
Country : Nigeria
Subject : Educational Management
Abstract
The main objective of this study sought to evaluate the coverage of agricultural related climate change issues from 2020 to 2022. Through the use of purposive sampling, three newspapers, Daily Sun newspaper, Punch newspaper and Vanguard newspaper were chosen. All the data were collected from 216 daily publications and were also analyzed using the simple descriptive statistics. Results of the study showed that there was only 0.53%, 1.56% and 1.95% coverage of agricultural related climate change issues in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. Flooding stories received more coverage in all three publications. The primary source of information was Individual Personalities. Additionally, a two-way ANOVA on the interaction between year of publication and the content categories on volume of coverage revealed Fcalculated values of 87.826 at 1% significant difference, 67.921 at 1% significant difference, and 32.000 at 1% significant difference, respectively thereby indicating a strong positive correlation coefficient. It was however concluded that agriculture-related climate change issues received insufficient coverage in the three newspapers analyzed. It was recommended that Nigerian media should give more consideration to covering issues related to agriculture and climate change because such issues are perceived as important to the extent that the media makes them appear to be based on the emphasis, prominence.
Keywords: Agricultural news, Climate change, Newspaper, Vanguard, Daily Sun, Punch.
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