Climate change (CC) remains a global concern impacting food security and human health negatively. Climate smart agriculture. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged as an important adaptation and mitigation strategy to counter the effects of CC, but the level of adoption has been low in Nigeria due supposedly Farmers’ awareness and knowledge of CSA among others factors. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the willingness of snail farmers to use climate smart agriculture practices in Anambra State. Three-stage sampling technique was adopted. First stage witnessed the purposively election of Ogbaru, Anambra west, Ihiala, Awka South, Idemili North and Anaocha Local Government Areas (LGAs). Base on the degree of involvement in snail farming as documented by the Anambra State Agricultural Development Program. Second stage witnessed the selection of three (3) communities randomly from each LGA and in the third stage, random sampling was used to select ten (10) snail farmers per community. A total of thirty farmers were sampled per LGA, totaling a hundred and eighty (180) sampled farmers. Structured questionnaire was then used to collect data on farmers’ Socio-economic characteristics, climate-smart practices by snail farmers; he willingness to use climate-smart practices by snail farmers and snail farmer’s annual yield. Descriptive and inferential analysis: logit and ordinary least square regression. The result revealed that 65% of the respondents were males with mean age 39.05 years. Majority (60.0%) had secondary education and 70% of the respondents have household size of 1-5 persons. Adaptation method employed were water conservation adopted by (50.0%) Agroforestry Integration (27.5%), Waste Management (28.33%), Natural Pest Control (87.72%), Habitat Preservation (09). Training, farmers interest in CSA and past implemented of CSA significant at 1%. positively and significantly affect willingness to adopt CSA at 5% and 1% respectively while type of climate-smart agriculture adopted negatively impacted willingness to adopt CSA. Flock size. (P=0.000), water conservation, agroforestry integration, waste management and natural pest control (P=0.01) were all having, positive and statistically significant effect on the yield. The higher the number of snails used for production the high the yield. The study recommends training and water conservation as the min variables to increase adoption of CSA and consequently increase yield.

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KeyWords: Determinants, Snail farmers, Willingness to use, Climate smart, Agriculture

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*Corresponding author: samuelanarah@gmail.com

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