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The study examines peasantry and rural food crop production decline in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria following the 2012 flood disaster. It explored a fifteen year scenario and argues that the peasants who are the rural cultivators experienced recent decline in their food crop production resulting from the flood disaster. Using the production function model, it hypothesized that flooding negatively affected rural food crop production which had implications on the peasants whose subsistence relied on their production. The paper further benchmarked the primary and secondary data collated from households and farmlands in the two states in the region purposively selected for the study namely; Bayelsa and Delta to determine the effects of the flood on both the peasant households and their farmlands and observed that peasants in non-flood impacted areas are comparatively well off in food crop production than those in flood prone areas. The study calls for urgent policy discourse to mitigate against climate change vulnerability.

Key words: Climate change, coastal region, peasantry, food crop, development, Niger Delta, Nigeria.

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Citation: Luke A (2013). Climate change, peasantry and rural food production decline in the Niger Delta Region: A case of the 2012 flood disaster. J. Agric. Crop Res. 1(6): 94-103.