Abstract:
Climate change is one of the greatest environmental and human development challenges facing
the world development sectors including Cooperative development. It threatens to large extent
the human health in view to food insecurity, malnutrition and hinders sustainable natural
resource conservation for enhanced agriculture productivity. However, changes of temperature,
land forms degradation, rainfall variability resulted from human development activities
including crop production appears to increase land use conflicts on resource use. Agriculture
Rural Cooperative development sector appears to be highly affected with these changes. The
conflicts aggravate the socio-economic problems including land scarcity due to uncontrolled
urbanization impacts on environment, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, infrastructures
depletions and water scarcity However, there is limited knowledge to date on understanding
the symbiotic relation of climate impacts on agriculture cooperative development sector. This
paper provides empirical data with evidence based to show the linkage and impacts of climate
change and rural agriculture cooperative development sector. It considers Agriculture and
Marketing Cooperative Society (AMCOS) to provide the evidence for learning. It highlights
the historical development of the sector, activities and how these activities influence climate
and therefore impacts on cooperative development. The existing nexus between biodiversity
loss, ecosystem function, cooperative services and human wellbeing, their impacts and
challenges are documented. Likely, institutional and policy aspects, member-based climate
adaptation capacity are envisaged. Future risks and hotspots for climate change interventions
in respect of AMCOS operations are highlighted to provide further lesson of experience in
context specific and may be applied to other agriculture cooperative development sector in SubSaharan Africa with the same context.
