The purpose of the study was to ascertain the relationship between environmental education awareness strategies and sustainable farming practices in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of this study, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design adopted for this study was the correlational design. The sampling technique that was adopted for this study is purposive and accidental sampling technique in selecting a sample size of 1, 443 for the study. A structured questionnaire titled “Environmental Education Awareness Strategies and sustainable Farming Questionnaire (EEASSFQ)” was used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument was established through Cronbach alpha method. To test the hypotheses formulated to guide the study, simple linear regression was used. The results obtained from analysis of data and testing of hypotheses in the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between the variables of environmental education awareness strategies and sustainable farming practices in Cross River State, Nigeria. Based on these findings it was recommended among others that since town crier is essential for information communication in rural areas, they should be appointed by the community based on the need for information dissemination.
Author Biographies
IMOKE AWARAEVOR, University of Calabar
Department of Environmental Education
University of Calabar, Calabar – Nigeria
IBOK EMMANUEL OKON, University of Calabar
Department of Continuing Education
and Development Studies
