scholarly journals Economic analysis of the effect of flood disaster on food security of arable farming households in Southern Guinea Savanna Zone, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
A. Jonathan ◽  
M.T. Owolabi ◽  
I.B. Olatunji ◽  
B.T. Duntoye ◽  
E.E. Henshaw
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Regression Result ◽  
Guinea Savanna ◽  
Arable Farming ◽  
Farming Households ◽  
Savanna Zone

The study assessed the economic analysis of the effect of flood disaster on food security of arable farming households in southern guinea savanna  zone, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 120 farmers who experienced and didn’t experience flooding in Kwara and Niger States from whom data were collected with the aid of a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, food security index and logistics regression model. This revealed that majority of the farming household heads in the study area were predominantly young people, who were still in their active age and had at least secondary education. Also, the food security result shows that majority of the farming households who experienced flood were not food secure. The regression result shows that the coefficients which were significant were years of schooling, household size, off farm income, household expenditure and flooding. The adaptation practices adopted against flooding by households includes seasonal migration, diversification of livelihood, terracing and early harvesting. The study recommends that climatic information especially the seasonal rainfall prediction annual reports be made available early enough to farmers in the flood plain areas to reduce the effect of food insecurity. Keywords: Flood, Food Security, Logistic Regression and Mitigate

scholarly journals The effect of sustainable land management technologies on farming household food security in Kwara state, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-214
Author(s):  
Shehu Salau ◽  
Robiu Aliu ◽  
Nofiu Nofiu
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Security Index ◽  
Farming Households

Nigeria is among countries of the world confronted with the food insecurity problem. The agricultural production systems that produce food for the teeming population are not sustainable. Consequently, the use of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) technologies becomes a viable option. This study assessed the effect of SLM technologies on farming households? food security in Kwara State, Nigeria. A random sampling technique was used to pick 200 farming households for this study. The analytical tools included descriptive statistics, Shriar index, Likert scale, food security index and logistic regression analysis. The results indicated that the average age of the respondents was 51.8 years. The food security index showed that the proportions of food secure and insecure households were 35% and 65% respectively. The binary logistic regression revealed that SLM technologies were one of the critical determinants of food security. An increase in the usage of SLM technologies by 0.106% raised food security by 1%. Other important factors that were estimated included farm income, family size, gender and age of the household head. To reduce the effects of food insecurity, the effective coping strategies adopted by the respondents were reduction in quantity and quality of food consumed, engaging in off-farm jobs to increase household income and using of money proposed for other purposes to buy foods. Governments at all levels should encourage the adoption and use of SLM technologies through both print and electronic media. Policies and strategies towards reducing the household size should be vigorously pursued to reduce food insecurity.

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 Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10211
Author(s):  
Sayed Alim Samim ◽  
Zhiquan Hu ◽  
Sebastian Stepien ◽  
Sayed Younus Amini ◽  
Ramin Rayee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Unit Group ◽  
Ordered Probit ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Agricultural Income ◽  
Farming Families ◽  
Farming Households

Improved food security remains a major challenge for policymakers in Afghanistan. The objective of this study is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of food insecurity among farming households in the Takhar region of Afghanistan. Household questionnaire survey datasets were obtained from 262 farmers via multi-stage sampling across four districts. The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) was constructed to assess the prevalence of food insecurity, and an ordered probit econometric model was used to identify the factors influencing the prevalence rates in farming families. The findings indicate that 66.79% of the farming households were food insecure, whilst 30.53% were severely food insecure. After adjustment of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of families, the ordered probit results reveals that household head education, dependency ratio, farm income, access to non-agricultural income, livestock unit, group membership, borrowing, farm diseases, flood, and war significantly influenced farming households’ food insecurity in the study area. Our findings highlight the urgent requirement for policies and initiatives to support farmers to improve their overall food security. Such strategies should focus on introducing improved farming techniques, enhancing farmer education levels, livestock development programs, building and empowering farmers groups, creating credit access to households, and providing humanitarian food support.

scholarly journals Food security status among cocoa growing households in Ondo and Kwara states of Nigeria: A discriminant analysis approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (48) ◽  
pp. 5646-5660
Author(s):  
K. A Oluyole ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Cocoa Farmers ◽  
Farming Households

Cocoa, being a cash crop is mostly cultivated among cocoa farmers without giving much consideration to the cultivation of food crops. There is, however, little evidence on the translation of the income from cocoa production into improved food security by cocoa farmers. This study therefore examined the food security status of cocoa farming households in Nigeria. A simple purposive random sampling technique was used to select 100 cocoa farmers from each of Ondo and Kwara states of Nigeria, thus making a total of 200 respondents used for the study. Information was collected from the respondents with the aid of a structured questionnaire and the data obtained from the information were analysed with Descriptive Statistics, Food Security Index, Surplus/Shortfall Index and Discriminant Analysis. The mean age for the households’ head was 53±16.27 years while the mean household size was 7±4.24 persons per household. The mean per capita food consumption was 2063.15±1343.55 kilocalories and the mean monthly farm income was N27,536.50±29161.74. With food security line of N 1,959.00, 44.0 % of the sampled households in the study area were able to meet the recommended calorie intake of 245 0 Kilocalories per capita per day. The food secure households exceeded the calorie requirement by 0.03% while the food insecure households fell short of the recommended calorie intake by 0.02%. An increase in the value of association membership of household head, off -farm income, farming experience of household head and number of meals taken per day (p<0.05) would improve the food security stat us of households and hence would shift the households to food security while an increase in the value of household size and per capita non -food expenditure (p<0.05) would worsen the food security status of households and therefore shift the household to food insecurity. The study recommended that there is a need for an enlightenment programme on birth control and that government can subsidize the price of food items as this will reduce the cost of procuring food items by households thus enabling households to be able to increase the number of meals taken per day. Also, cocoa farming households are encouraged to ensure that income from cocoa is partly used to address food insecurity at household level.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF FOOD SECURITY STATUS AMONG RURAL FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN MUBI NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 226-246
Author(s):  
A.S. Haddabi ◽  
N. J Ndehfru ◽  
A. Aliyu
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Production Constraints ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Farming Households

The study analyzes Food security status among rural farming households in Mubi North local Government Area of Adamawa state, Nigeria. Respondents’ socio- economic characteristics, food security status determinants of household food security and production constraints faced by respondents in achieving food security in the study area were investigated. Data were collected from one hundred and twelve (112) randomly selected rural farmers in six villages of the six (6) selected wards of Mubi North local government area using structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analysis. The result revealed that 72.32% of the respondents were male and 75% were married. Majority (72.33%) of the respondents had one form of formal education or the other and with a mean farming experience of 12 years. The respondents were mostly in their economically active age (mean age of 37 years) and cultivate an average of 2.95 hectares of farm land using personal savings. The mean per capita food expenditure per month was estimated to be N6, 205.11 and the value was used as food security index, and majority (74.10%) of the households were food secured in the study area. The result further revealed that educational level, farm size, farming experience and total monthly income of household heads were positively related to households’ food security status, while age of households’ head was inversely related to food security status. The major production constraints to achieving food security status in the study area include; poor access to credit facilities (98%), high cost of agro-chemicals (81%) inadequate and high cost of fertilizer (78%), shortage of labour (77%), poor storage facilities (62%) and inadequate extension visit (51%). The study among others recommended that rural farmers should be trained on farm management efficiency to boost production capacity and they should explore non-farm income to augment their existing income so as to increase their potentials considering that most of the farmers are youths.

scholarly journals Assessment of hired labour use and food security among rural farming households in Kwara State, Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemi Omotesho ◽  
Azeez Muhammad-Lawal ◽  
Damilare Ismaila
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Extension Education ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Agricultural Credit ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Older Farmers ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Farming Households

This study examined the relationship between hired labour use and food security among rural farming households in Kwara State, Nigeria. It determined the food security status of rural farming households and investigated the determinants of hired labour use. A four-stage random sampling technique was used to select 135 rural farming households from which data were collected with the use of a well-structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and the Tobit regression model were the analytical tools used for the study. The study revealed that only about half of the households (51.1%) were food secure and that there is a positive correlation between the hired labour use and their food security status. Dependency ratio, age and educational qualification of the household head, total household size, and household income significantly influenced hired labour use (p<0.01). The study recommends the need for agricultural credit schemes in Nigeria to accord higher priority to older farmers and poor rural households. In addition, extension education which emphasizes agriculture as a business rather than a mere way of life should be promoted among farmers.

Odonata from the Guinea Savanna Zone in Ghana

2009 ◽  
Vol 183 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian G. Marshall ◽  
R. Moylan Gambles
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Savanna ◽  
Savanna Zone
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