scholarly journals Poverty and Income Inequality among Fish Farming Households in Oyo State, Nigeria

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bola Amoke Awotide
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Households

scholarly journals Food security assessment of NGO supported and own managed pond fish farmers of two districts in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Akhi ◽  
MT Uddin ◽  
MM Islam
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Daily Calorie Intake

The study was conducted to assess the food security status of pond fish farming under NGO supported and own managed and to evaluate the influential factors of NGOs’ intervention on pond fish farmers’ food security in two districts of Bangladesh. Random sampling technique was used to select farmers from two groups of pond fish farming: one is NGO supported and another is own managed farmers. A total of 120 farmers (60 for NGO supported and 60 for own managed) were selected for data collection. To identify the factors influencing the food security status of fish farming households, a food security index (Z) was constructed and food security status of each household was determined based on the food security line using the recommended daily calorie intake approach. Logit model was used to estimate the food security status of households as a function of a set of independent determinants. Based on the recommended daily calorie intake of 2122 kcal, it is observed that 95 percent of the households were food secure and 5 percent households were food insecure in case of NGO supported fish farmers. On the other hand, 30 percent of the households were food secure and 70 percent households were food insecure in case of own managed fish farmers. The result of logit model shows that six out of eight variables included in the model were significant in explaining the variation in food security status. These variables were: age of the household head, education level of the household head, farm size, intervention on fish farming, income from fish and non-farm income. The study, therefore, recommended improved access to technical supports of pond fish farming households is necessary to ensure food security status at the national level.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 13(2): 273-281, December 2015

scholarly journals Rural livelihood diversification and income inequality in local government area Akinyele, Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abimbola Adepoju ◽  
Olaniyi Oyewole
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Entropy Inequality ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Farming Households

The pattern of income distribution has been a major concern in the developing world. This is because high levels of income inequality are likely to create a hostile atmosphere for economic growth and development. This study examined rural livelihood strategies and their contribution to the overall income inequality of households in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state. Primary data employed in the study were obtained from 105 respondents selected through a multi-stage sampling technique. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, multinomial logit and the generalized entropy inequality indices as a measure of inequality. The distribution of respondents by type of livelihood strategy adopted revealed that almost half of the respondents adopted the combination of farm and non-farm strategy while 14.3% and 40.0% adopted only farm and non-farm strategy respectively. Income inequality was the highest among non-farming households and the lowest among farming households, implying that income from non-farm activities contributed most to income inequality in the study area. The study revealed that the major factor which negatively influenced the choice of farming as a livelihood strategy was household size while factors such as age and land ownership had positive and negative effects on the adoption of the non-farm strategy respectively. The study recommends that policies targeted at rural dwellers should centre on improved access to productive assets such as land for the landless farmers as well as the provision of improved technology, which could encourage the ageing farming population to engage in farming activities.

Case study on the National Aquaculture Strategic Plan in Malawi.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisungu E. Banda ◽  
Jeremiah Kang'ombe ◽  
Emmanuel K. W. Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Fish Production ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Plan Study ◽  
The Government ◽  
Aquaculture Development ◽  
Farming Households

Abstract This case study provides an analysis of the implementation of the National Aquaculture Strategic Plan (NASP) for Malawi. The NASP is a strategic document for aquaculture development in Malawi that was created in response to a request from the Government of Malawi (GoM) to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to conduct a Master Plan Study on Aquaculture Development. The NASP was set to improve aquaculture development from 2005 to 2015. The aquaculture sector plays a significant role as a source of food, income and employment to Malawi's population. It is estimated that the sector provides about 2% of the nation's fish production and, among fish farming households, to contribute up to 17% of household income, depending on fish farming activities. Fish from both aquaculture and capture fisheries contribute about 4% to the country's GDP and provide almost 70% of animal protein and 40% of total protein thereby contributing to the country's food security and livelihood strategies. The purpose of the case study was to provide a clear understanding of the existing state of the NASP. The case study involves a number of stakeholders that were chosen randomly from the NASP document as partners in its implementation. The study analyses the progress of the NASP implementation by looking at whether the implementation structure was functioning, it also assessed the knowledge of the stakeholders on the document, the linkage of the stakeholders, the coordination among stakeholders and developments in fish production through aquaculture. The results show that the institutional structures that were proposed to implement and monitor all the NASP strategies and activities have not been formed. This has led to lack of knowledge of the document by some stakeholders. Poor coordination and networking among the stakeholders has also led to the failure of the strategic plan. The case study concludes that there is an urgent need for the formulation of a separate institutional structure to look into aquaculture development in Malawi with the help of the Departement of Fisheries (DoF) and all the stakeholders so as to help review and process the NASP action plans if quantitative progress is to be achieved.

Malnutrition among children in rural Malawian fish-farming households

2009 ◽  
Vol 103 (8) ◽  
pp. 827-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hirotsugu Aiga ◽  
Sadatoshi Matsuoka ◽  
Chushi Kuroiwa ◽  
Sachio Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Households

scholarly journals Assessment of Household Food Security in Fish Farming Communities in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akua S. Akuffo ◽  
Kwamena K. Quagrainie
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Ecological Zone ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Food Consumption Score ◽  
The Government ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Food Consumed

The Government of Ghana and international NGOs have been encouraging the adoption of fish farming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity through training workshops, financial contributions and creation of a fisheries ministry. Nevertheless, there is no study on how these efforts have influenced the household’s welfare, particularly their nutritional quality. Based on this, our objective is to identify the ways through which fish farming impacts the household’s nutritional quality. We hypothesize that engaging in fish farming will increase steady income flow and access to fish for the household’s direct consumption. We adopted the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) approach in a logit framework to achieve this objective and address the endogeneity from the bias of self -selection by creating a statistically similar-looking control group. The results suggest that fish farming households have higher nutritional quality and frequency of food consumed than the non-fish farming households through direct consumption. The probability of adopting fish farming increases with wealth, location, ecological zone and household size but decreases with household income per capita. The average effect of adopting fish farming on household nutritional quality is 15.5 Food Consumption Score points. Policies that encourage women to engage in not only fish processing, but production as well are advised.

scholarly journals Effect of Social Capital on Poverty Alleviation among Fish Farming Households in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Adepoju
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
Farming Households

This study investigates the effect of social capital investment on poverty reduction among fish farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of the respondents. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire from a representative sample size of 359 households in four local government areas representing the four agricultural zones, namely Ibadan-ibarapa, Oyo, Ogbomoso and Saki in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study used a multinomial logit regression model to examine the effect of social capital on household poverty. The estimates of the regression model indicated that, in addition to the socio-economic characteristics of some households, social capital endowments have significant effect on the probability of a household being poor. The study concluded that, among other factors, social capital is very important in reducing household’s poverty. It was therefore recommended that stakeholders should be encouraged to invest in households’ social capital to accelerate poverty reduction among the fish farmers in the study area.

Eco-technological analysis of fish farming households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

2017 ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Pekar ◽  
N. V. Be ◽  
D. N. Long ◽  
N. V. Cong ◽  
D. T. Dung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Technological Analysis

scholarly journals LIÊN KẾT TRONG NUÔI TRỒNG VÀ TIÊU THỤ CÁ LỒNG TẠI THỊ TRẤN THUẬN AN, HUYỆN PHÚ VANG, TỈNH THỪA THIÊN HUẾ

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 2029-2037
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Trần Tiểu Phụng ◽  
Lê Thị Hoa Sen ◽  
Lê Thị Hồng Phương
Keyword(s):  
Fish Consumption ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Cooperative Group ◽  
Motivating Factors ◽  
Cage Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Cross Linkage ◽  
The Status ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Cage Fish

Nghiên cứu này nhằm đánh giá thực trạng liên kết trong nuôi trồng và tiêu thụ cá lồng của nông hộ tại thị trấn Thuận An, huyện Phú Vang, tỉnh Thừa Thiên Huế. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy có 02 loại hình hợp tác liên kết chính của nông hộ trên địa bàn nghiên cứu là hợp tác (liên kết ngang) giữa các hộ tham gia nuôi cá lồng và liên kết dọc giữa hộ nuôi cá lồng với các tác nhân trung gian thông qua chuỗi đó là: “Liên kết giữa đại lý bán giống và các hộ nuôi - Liên kết giữa các hộ nuôi và đại lý thu mua - Liên kết giữa các đại lý thu mua đến người tiêu dùng cuối cùng”. Có 04 yếu tố thúc đẩy và 05 yếu tố hạn chế sự liên kết của nông hộ trong quá trình tiêu thụ cá lồng. Các mối liên kết chỉ mang tính tự phát và hình thành dựa trên sự tin tưởng của các quan hệ thân quen, chưa có tổ hợp tác liên kết cụ thể trong hoạt động nuôi cá lồng ở địa bàn nghiên cứu. Các giải pháp cần thiết lúc này là sự tham gia của chính quyền địa phương trong việc phát triển các mối liên kết, tập huấn nâng cao năng lực cho nông hộ để góp phần tăng thu nhập cho người dân, tạo thương hiệu và giải quyết được vấn đề thị trường cho sản phẩm cá lồng tại thị trấn Thuận An. ABSTRACT This study aimed to assess the status of linkage in cage culture and consumption of households in Thuan An town, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue province. The research results showed that there were two main types of cooperative cooperation among farmers in the study area such as cooperation (cross-linkage) between households participating in cage fish farming and vertical linkage between cage farming households and intermediary agent through that chain was “The linkage between seed dealers and farmers - the linkage between farmers and buying agent -  the linkage between buying agent to the final consumers”. There were 04 motivating factors and 05 factors that limited the households’ linkage during cage fish consumption. The linkage was spontaneous and formed based on trust and familiarity, there was no specific cooperative group in cage fish farming activities in the study area. The necessary solutions were  participation of local authorities in developing linkages, training to improve farmers’ capacity to contribute to increasing households incomes for the people, creating brands and solving commercial issues for fish cage products in Thuan An town.  

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