scholarly journals Early maturing sorghum technology promotion in selected Agricultural Growth Program-II districts of Harari region and Dire Dawa City Adminstration rural areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 037-040
Author(s):  
Usmane Ibsa Aliyi ◽  
Teha Abdulaziz ◽  
Magersa Oromiya ◽  
Siraj Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Dire Dawa ◽  
Early Maturing

scholarly journals Household level determinants of food insecurity in rural areas of Dire Dawa, eastern Ethiopia

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (30) ◽  
pp. 1914-1926
Author(s):  
Ayalneh Bogale ◽  
◽  
Shimelis A ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Household Food Insecurity ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Dire Dawa

Even though the struggle to achieve food security at the household level in the rural areas of Ethiopia dates back a long period, it has remained as a challenging goal even today. Making their living on marginal, moisture stressed, heavily degraded and less productive land, households in rural areas of Dire Dawa face persistent food shortages. The design and implementation of effective measures to reduce household food insecurity in the region depends on in-depth understanding of its covariates. This study seeks to address these issues by assessing location specific socio-economic factors that influence food insecurity of households in rural areas of Dire Dawa Administrative region. The analysis is based on survey data gathered from randomly selected 115 sample rural households in the study area. A binary logit model was used to identify the factors influencing household level food insecurity. A total of thirteen explanatory variables were included in the empirical model. The empirical results estimated using the survey data to identify the determinants of food insecurity among rural households in the study area revealed mixed impressions. Among variables considered , family size, annual income, amount of credit received, access to irrigation, age of household head, farm size, and livestock owned showed theoretically consistent and statistically significant effect. However, estimated coefficients of number of oxen owned and dependency ratio showed theoretically inconsistent and statistically insignificant effect on the probability of household to be food insecure.. Estimated coefficients of sex of household head, total off-farm income, education of household head and amount of food aid received were not found to be statistically significant in determining household food insecurity in the study area. The findings imply that improvement in food security situation needs to build assets, improve the functioning of rural financial markets and promote family planning. These areas could provide entry points for policy intervention to reduce hunger and augment household and community livelihood opportunities.

Countryside may help ease India’s economic downturn

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Monsoon Rainfall ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Urban Firms

Significance Many urban firms are suffering labour shortages, as the nationwide lockdown forced millions of migrant labourers to leave the cities in which they were working and return to their homes in rural areas. Impacts GDP will likely contract heavily in fiscal year 2020/21 (April-March). Since ‘normal’ monsoon rainfall is forecast, there should be sizeable harvests this year, increasing the likelihood of agricultural growth. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise, health services in many cities could become overwhelmed.

Landlessness and Rural Poverty in Pakistan

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (4II) ◽  
pp. 855-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talat Anwar ◽  
Sarfraz Khan Qureshi ◽  
Hammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Skewed Distribution ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
The 1960S

Poverty imposes a repressive weight on Pakistan particularly in rural areas where almost one third of population and majority of the poor live. Although poverty has declined during the 1970s and 1980s, the absolute number of poor has increased substantially since the 1960s. Despite a number of policy initiatives and programmes undertaken for poverty alleviation by various governments, absolute poverty particularly in rural areas continued to rise in Pakistan during the 1990s. Much has been written about poverty in Pakistan so far. A number of attempts have been made by various authors/institutions to estimate the rural poverty in Pakistan in the 1990s. Discussions have remained limited to estimating the regional and provincial trends for rural poverty in Pakistan. Although landlessness and rural poverty in Pakistan received significant attention in the 1970 and 1980, discussions on this issue remained limited in the 1990s. Landlessness and rural poverty are closely linked since land is a principal asset in a rural economy like Pakistan. Landlessness to agricultural land is considered to be the most important contributor to rural poverty. A high concentration of landownership is a major constraint to agricultural growth and alleviation of poverty. There is a general perception that highly skewed distribution of land in Pakistan is one of the important causes of widespread poverty particularly in rural areas.

scholarly journals Impact of Agricultural Input Supply on Agricultural Growth in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1317-1322
Author(s):  
G. Opeyemi ◽  
S.S. Olusegun ◽  
A. Taiwo ◽  
A.O. Mobolaji
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Distributed Lag ◽  
Development Indicator ◽  
World Development Indicator ◽  
Agricultural Input

Improving the production capacity of agriculture in Nigeria through agricultural input supply is an important policy goal in a country where agriculture represents an important sector in the economy. The agricultural sector provides livelihood to a significant portion of Nigerian population, especially in rural areas, where poverty is more pronounced. Thus, a growing agricultural sector contributes to both overall growth and poverty alleviation. The study specifically examined the effects of agricultural input supply on agricultural growth in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. The objective of this study is to examine agricultural input supply in Nigeria and its implications on the growth of agricultural growth in Nigeria. The study used time series data covering 1986-2016 obtained from FAOSTAT, World Development Indicator and Central Bank of Nigeria data base. This study utilized Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach to investigate the variables. The finding of the study shows that there is co-integration between the variables. The result of the study shows that gross capital formation and Fertilizer supply to agriculture were significant in influencing agricultural growth in Nigeria with coefficient values of (-0.002468), and (0.001506), with P-values of (0.0222) and (0.0171) respectively. Given the robust nature of the result, it is evident that agricultural input supply contributes in great measure to agricultural growth in Nigeria. The study then conclude that agricultural input is essential for the growth of agricultural sector in Nigeria and recommend that given the lean resources available to government, attention should be given to the inputs that contributes significantly to the growth of the sector.

scholarly journals Employment Multipliers from Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction (The Ghulam Mohammad Memorial Lecture)

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (4I) ◽  
pp. 371-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Major Effect ◽  
Good News ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Rapid Reduction ◽  
Farm Sector ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Direct Benefits

Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. Worse, the excellent progress made in poverty reduction in the 1970s and 1980s has been reversed in the 1990s. That is the bad news. The good news is that Pakistan is unusually well placed to return to rapid reduction in poverty. We have long known that agricultural growth is closely related to poverty reduction. Recent studies by Peter Timmer and by Martin Ravallion and their colleagues provide massive statistical evidence of this relationship. Rural growth and agricultural growth have a major effect on poverty reduction; urban growth and manufacturing growth do not. At first glance that is strange because farmers are not the poorest rural people, and the direct benefits from agricultural growth are distributed roughly proportionately to size of landholding. The poor in rural areas are heavily concentrated in the rural non-farm sector. They produce non-tradable goods and services. That is, local demand is essential to their growth. It is rising agricultural incomes that provide that growth in local demand. Thus, agriculture’s massive impact on poverty is indirect, working through expenditures on the rural non-farm sector. The bulk of those expenditures are for consumption goods.

Leadership and Governance: Dilemma of Agricultural Development in Nigeria

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.L. Balogun ◽  
K Ayantoye ◽  
O.T. Akinwole ◽  
O.S. Alabi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Agricultural Growth ◽  
African Agriculture ◽  
The Right ◽  
Rural Dwellers

Agriculture contributes immensely to the Nigerian economy in various ways; namely, in the provision of food for the increasing population; supply of adequate raw materials to a growing industrial sector; a major source of employment; generation of foreign exchange earnings; and provision of a market for the products of the industrial sector among others. It has been observed that African agriculture remains largely traditional and concentrated in the hands of smallholders and pastoralists, and the neglect of agriculture has resulted to the mass exodus of rural dwellers to urban, thereby qualitatively and quantitatively depopulated rural areas making it less attractive for socio-economic investment. This paper reviews the roles of leadership and governance in agricultural development in Nigeria. It discusses the problems and challenges posed by these and government responses to leadership and governance dilemma in agriculture in the country. The paper concludes that good leadership and governance are important for agricultural growth and development. Reversing the current state of Nigeria’s agriculture is more than just a technical issue, but structural change and better way of managing our resources. There is also the need for a sound political climate to generate a strong and collective political will. The political leadership must also change and must be armed with the right mental capacity, discipline, integrity and positive political will.

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