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The study was
carried out to assess land revitalization and management
practices against the menace of climate change in southeast,
Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in
selecting a total of 180 respondents in the study area. Well
structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from
the respondents. Descriptive statistics such as percentages
and mean presented in tabular forms were used to analyze and
interpret data. The study revealed that the major causes of
land degradation were flooding (96.6.6%), erosion (97.7%),
heavy rainfall (91.6%) among others. To revitalize/manage
land in the study area, the respondents practiced land
rotation (fallow), crop diversification, cover cropping,
agro-forestry, crop rotation, regular weeding and others.
Again, the study revealed the problems in use of the
practices to include high cost of labour, low productivity,
poor price of produce, land tenure and fragmentation
problems among others. It was recommended that government
should provide the respondents with soft-loan without
interest, and reform the agrarian law of the land to give
farmers more access to land.
Keywords: Land degradation, climate change, management
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