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The inevitable desire for productive and remunerative agriculture with zero negative impact both ... more The inevitable desire for productive and remunerative agriculture with zero negative impact both on the environment and the natural resource base (natural systems) in the quest to mitigate the impact of climate extremes on the agri-food ecosystem, farming households’ welfare, and food security status in Nigeria, necessitates farmers’ adoption of eco-friendly agricultural practices (conservation agricultural practices) which are adjudged to be climate-smart. These practices are confluence in nature, interrelated and mutually enabling, with specific trade-offs. Households’ survey data from the randomly selected 350 smallholder farmers were analyzed with heterogeneous treatment effect econometrics model to investigate farmers’ adoption status of ecofriendly agricultural practices, and to find out if farmers’ adoption decision have impact on their welfare gains. Bearing in mind that, many of the previous related studies on adoption of improved agricultural practices in South-west Nigeri...

Rural households in Nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make inf... more Rural households in Nigeria are vulnerable to shock because of their limited capacity to make informed decision on secured coping strategies which is further aggravated by some households’ specific socio-economic characteristics. Attempts were made to identify shocks being faced by households’ heads and coping strategies. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 80 respondents and well structured questionnaire was used to collect data through in-depth interview. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics to describe households’ socio- economic variables; Probit analysis was also used to determine the relationship between personal socio-economic characteristics of the respondents, shocks and choice of coping actions. The results revealed that a large share of households experience multidimensional shocks, which are mainly associated to ecological but also suffer from other economic, demographic and social factors. Majority of households undertake coping actions in respon...

Nigeria's situation on food production is precarious as its significant percentage is left wi... more Nigeria's situation on food production is precarious as its significant percentage is left with only the bilious taste of insufficiency both in food production and consumption, especially among rural households. They are most vulnerable to this dwindling situations; this dirge persists till today. There is growing evidence that social capital is an additional input in the household's production function and as such, element for sustainable development due to the roles it plays in managing risks, shocks, and opportunities for increased food crop production and improving household welfare. It has been observed that not all social capital leads to growth or development. Some social capital may be beneficial while some may be deleterious depending on the motives behind its formation. Data collected from 233 respondents through multistage sampling was analyzed through composite score analysis, probit and ordered probit regression models. Findings revealed that more than half (66....

The Journal of Developing Areas, 2021

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 2020

The persistent use of traditional farming practices and cultivation of low yielding variety of cr... more The persistent use of traditional farming practices and cultivation of low yielding variety of crops on scattered small farmland holdings by agrarian farming households in Nigeria has put pressure on land and water resources, consequently leading to depletion of soil productivity with spill-over effects on the environment, crop-output and farm-income. Addressing this requires a holistic approach, especially in light of farmers’ apathy towards transitioning from traditional farming practices to more sustainable ones, and motivated this research. This research used cross-sectional survey data obtained from 350 farmers randomly chosen from South-West Nigeria. This study applied a descriptive statistical technique to present the mean statistics of sampled farmers’ characteristics. Similarly, the study applied a bivariate probit model to examine the influences on farmers’ decisions about conservation agriculture (CA) adoption, as well as to isolate the factors driving farmers’ choices on acquisition of information decision and the use of CA practices. The results revealed that decisions to acquire information and adopt CA were jointly determined by farmers, owing to the positive and strong correlation parameter-rho in the estimated model. More so, the post-estimation Murphy test score apparently revealed no significant departure from the normal and jointly distributed error terms.

Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 2018

Enhancing agricultural production through sustainable soil/land and water conservation practices ... more Enhancing agricultural production through sustainable soil/land and water conservation practices are vital to the sustenance of the human race as entrenched in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2, 12 and 15 respectively. Smallholder farmers are faced with myriads of soil and water-related issues in production which make them vulnerable to land degradation and low productivity. This calls for policies to enhance sustainable food production; hence, the need for this study which highlighted the influencing dynamics governing the preference and use of SWC practices alternatives in Nigeria with particular reference to Osun State. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted in this study to select the representative sample of 240 respondents. Data collected through primary source include information on selected farmersâ€™ socioeconomic attributes, institutional and farm level characteristics as well as the SWC practices prevalent in the study area. The SWC practices highligh...

International Journal of Social Economics, 2019

Purpose Many nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria have initiated programmes targeted ... more Purpose Many nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria have initiated programmes targeted at addressing food insecurity, but without any major significant breakthrough. This necessitates the call for inclusion of social network institutional framework into the food and nutrition security policy of many developing countries. This is touted as an important social safety net needed for farming households’ economic advancement and welfare. Consequent on this, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of social networks in building resilience against food insecurity among farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Data collected from a sample of 297 smallholder farmers during 2015/2016 agricultural production season were analysed using descriptive statistics to describe farmers’ notable characteristics. However, Foster–Greer–Thorbecke indices vis-à-vis food consumption expenditure-metrics technique was used to evaluate the food security profile of ...

African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development, 2019

Smallholder farmers are faced with myriads of soil and water related issues in production, which ... more Smallholder farmers are faced with myriads of soil and water related issues in production, which makes them vulnerable to land degradation and low productivity. Land resource degradation remains a major threat to food security leading to persistent poverty among the agrarian and urban populace. Therefore, there is need for appropriate interventions such as improved soil and ground water conservation (SWC) practice. This study examined the dynamics influencing the use and extent of use of SWC practices among smallholder farmers in Nigeria with particular reference to Osun State. The sampling technique used involved random selection in many stages to select the representative sample of 240 respondents. Data collected through primary source included: farmers' socioeconomic attributes, farm level characteristics as well as the use of SWC practices in the study area. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, binary probit and negative binomial regression models. Findings from the count of SWC practices revealed that on the average, most farmers use at least one SWC practice. The results also indicated that fairly aged farmers were the set of people in the study area who adopted between 2 to 3 different SWC practices. Estimation of binary probit and its marginal effects at the means (MEMs) revealed that age of the farmers (p<0.01), gender (p<0.01), years of formal education (p<0.01) and farm size under cultivation (p<0.1) were significant determinants of SWC practices adoption. Similarly, the count model estimates revealed that age of the farmer (p<0.01), gender (p<0.01) and the size of farmland put under cultivation (p<0.05) significantly determined the log counts of SWC practices adopted by smallholder farmers in the study area. However, the test of overdispersion parameter showed that the model fits well. Therefore, there is need for massive campaign by the institutional establishments saddled with agricultural development policies on the need for SWC farming practices, so that the resource-poor farmers can have remunerative livelihoods in Nigeria.

GeoJournal, 2019

Enhancing sustainable food security requires agricultural production systems to change in the dir... more Enhancing sustainable food security requires agricultural production systems to change in the direction of higher productivity and to mitigate lower output variability in the face of climate extreme related hazards such as land degradation. Adoption of resilient food production system capable of withstanding disruptive events is therefore needed to stabilize farmers' productivity. Consequently, participation in collective actions has been touted as an effective approach to enhance cooperation among individuals within a social system and to advance adoption of climate-smart farming techniques (conservation agriculture). This study investigated this perspective using heterogeneous treatment effects estimation to analyze the data collected from 350 smallholder farmers selected randomly from the SouthWest Nigeria. The average treatment effects on the treated estimate revealed that participation in collective actions had adoption-increasing effect for each unit variation in propensity score rank, although, negative selection effect was suspected. Similarly, information acquisition, access to extension service and frequency of visit by extension workers are significant features that predict adoption in the study area. However, rosenbaum sensitivity analysis test revealed that the increasing effect of participation in collective actions on conservation agriculture adoption is insensitive to unobserved bias that may double or triple the odds of exposure to treatment. Hence, the average treatment effect on the treated estimate is a pure impact of the participation in collective actions. The study concluded that farmers with high propensity to participate in collective action have high likelihood to adopt climate-resilient farming practices compared to the counterparts with a lower propensity of participation in collective action.

Cogent Social Sciences, 2019

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as conservation agriculture (CA), remain an important cr... more Sustainable agricultural practices, such as conservation agriculture (CA), remain an important crux of conservation efforts to boost food crop production output due to productivity decline. Using cross-sectional survey data from 350 smallholder farmers, this study investigated the likelihood of adoption of CA practices in SouthWest Nigeria based on a number of factors as well as factors predicted to effect farmers' output when these practices were adopted. Crosstabulation technique was applied to profile the farmers' features, while heckman selectivity model was used to estimate the effect of CA adoption on farmers' production output from CA plots and to sequentially address potential selectivity problem in a bid to disentangle the effect of adoption and other confounders which vary across individual farmers. Findings revealed that exposure time period, land acquisition, CA farm size cultivated, total farm size, access to extension services and social capital components are significant predictors of adoption. Likewise, human capital (years of formal education and farming experience), marital status, access to extension service and frequency of extension visit significantly predict farmers' production output. Most importantly, the estimated selection bias control ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sustainability, 2019

The major concern of most African countries, including Nigeria, in recent times is how to increas... more The major concern of most African countries, including Nigeria, in recent times is how to increase food production because of food insecurity issues, which by extension, is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of poverty. Therefore, adoption of conservation agricultural practices is regarded as a pathway to drive the achievement of food and nutrition security, as well as the needed optimal performance in the agri-food sector. Reportedly, scaling up of the limited adoption of these practices could be facilitated through kinship ties, peer influence, and social networks that govern mutual interactions among individuals; therefore, this motivated the study. Using cross-sectional data obtained from 350 sample units selected from South-Western Nigeria through a multistage sampling technique, this study applied descriptive statistical tools and cross-tabulation techniques to profile the sampled subjects while count outcome models were used to investigate the factors driving count...

Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, 2013

Poverty is a topical issue in developing countries especially Africa and Nigeria in particular. T... more Poverty is a topical issue in developing countries especially Africa and Nigeria in particular. The dearth of studies on quantitative determinants of poverty in Nigeria is a major weak point in the countrys p overty reduction policy and strategy formulation. This study analyzed the incidence, severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ogbomoso Agricultural Zone of Oyo State, Nigeria using the data collected through well - structured questionnaire from120 respondents who were selected through a multistage sampling technique.Analytical techniques used include descriptive statistics (frequency counts, percentages and mean values),poverty Indicesand ordinary least square technique (OLS); this was used t o assess the determinants of poverty among the households. The findings revealed that poverty is higher among households that have old heads, female heads, and large household size, engage in farming as the only occupation and have no formal education; poverty therefore rises with the increase in household size while it reduces with increase in level of education, farm size and participation non -farm jobs as alternative livelihood source (livelihood diversification). Gender, household size, years spent in school, farm size and non-farm jobs were found to be important and significant factors determining poverty in the study area. The study recommends that,

British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade, 2012

This study analyzed the determinants of poverty among crop farmers in Ogo -Oluwa Local Government... more This study analyzed the determinants of poverty among crop farmers in Ogo -Oluwa Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected with the aid of well

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... group. Oni, OA, Oladele, OI, Oyewole, IK 2005: 'Analysis of factors influencing loan def... more ... group. Oni, OA, Oladele, OI, Oyewole, IK 2005: 'Analysis of factors influencing loan default among poultry farmers in Ogun state: probit analysis', Journal of Central European Agriculture, Vol. 6 (4) p. 620 Sharon, BH 2008: 'Rural Women and Food ...

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

This study investigated the effect of resilience components and indicators on households' wel... more This study investigated the effect of resilience components and indicators on households' welfare distribution in the study area, using the data collected from households' surveys. Respondents were drawn from the study area through the multistage random sampling technique; while the data obtained from 363 sampled respondents were analyzed and described through the use of descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, percentages, and cross tabulation technique). The resilience tool of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) was adopted to measure the resilience pillars through their corresponding components/indicators. Similarly, a quantile regression econometric model was used to estimate the effect of the resilience pillars vis-à-vis the indicators on welfare distribution in the study area. The results indicated that the majority of the respondents fall within the low quintiles of households' welfare, while women were found to be dispropor...

SOCIAL CAPITAL, Jan 1, 2006

The study estimated the effect of social capital on household welfare in Surulere Local Governmen... more The study estimated the effect of social capital on household welfare in Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo state, Nigeria. The welfare of the rural poor is far worse than that of the urban poor in terms of the personal consumption levels, access to education, sound health care, availability of potable water and sanitation, housing facilities, good road network and communication; it is almost always characterized by high levels of deprivation and powerlessness; these characteristics form the hub of inadequate well-being of households. The differences in welfare whether at individual or household level or at the state level cannot be explicitly explained using the differences in the use of traditional inputs such as labour, land and physical capital; traditional composition of capital in form of natural, physical and human capital also needs to be expanded to include social capital for sustainable development. Information was collected from a sample of 90 respondents who were selected through two stage sampling techniques. Descriptive statistics (frequency count, percentages and mean values) were used to describe the data while inferential statistics such as Ordinary Least Square estimation technique was used to test the formulated hypothesis. The findings revealed that specific socio-economic characteristics such as age, age-squared and household size make significant contribution to percentage changes in household welfare.