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Table 4 Descriptive Statistics from Respondents on Financial Access in Rural Northern Nigeria

From: Climate change and financing adaptation by farmers in northern Nigeria

 

No (%)

Are there financial institution in the community

6.25

Do you have need for finance to help boost poor farm harvest due to increasing challenge of climate change

4.06

Have you borrowed from family and friends in the past 12 months

12.5

Have you borrowed from another private lender in the past 12 months

74.38

Have you borrowed from a financial institution in the past 12 months

80.0

Proportion with Bank Account

63.75

Proportion with access to crop insurance

77.19

Proportion having benefited from government agricultural programme

63.44

Proportion with savings with a financial institution

70.69

Proportion with membership of savings club

33.44

Proportion to have benefited from financial literacy programme

65.00

Proportion who needed finance but had no access

4.06

  1. Source: Field Survey, 2014