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The study determines the effects of socioeconomic variables on food security status among rural farming households in Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used in selecting two hundred and twenty-five (225) rural farming households. Structured questionnaire complimented with interview schedule was used for data collection. Information was collected on the food security status of the households and effect of socioeconomic variables on food security status among rural farming households. Data was analysed using frequency, percentage, food security index and logit regression. The result showed that the mean per capital expenditure of the households was N126264.444 while the food security line was N84176.3. About 69.9% of the households were food secure while 69.9% were food insecure. The coefficient of age (-0.0818006), household size (-0.0883087), educational level (0.36731) and annual income (0.4168275) had effect on the food security of rural households in the study area. It is recommended that older farmers be supported with incentives in order to reduce over-dependents on young farmers. Farmers should diversify into other viable enterprises in order to address the problem of food insecurity.
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The study analyzed food security situation among rural farming households in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used for selecting samples for the study. In the first stage, four Local Government Areas were purposively selected based on their large concentration of farming households, from which two rural communities were each selected. The last stage involved simple random selection of 20% of the farming households from each rural community selected in stage two, to give a total of 120 households as the sample size for the study. Data were collected using structured questionnaires. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, household food security index and binary logistic regression model. Results of socio-economic characteristics of farming households showed that the mean age of household heads in the study area was 39 years, majority (87.5%) of the households was headed by males and 83.3% of the households’ heads were married. Major occupations of the household heads were farming and trading representing 40% of all the household heads and over 59% of them had secondary school education. The results further show that average household size in the study area was 11 persons. Also, 40% of the household heads had farming experience of between 14 and 22 years and mean annual households income was ₦557,783.00. Majority (55.8%) of the household heads claimed not to have access to extension services. Results of food security status of farming households revealed that 67% of the households were food secure and 33% were food insecure. The Mean Per Capita Food Expenditure (MPCFE) and food security line were ₦3,549.61 and ₦2,366.41 respectively. Results of logistic regression analysis reveal that coefficients of farming experience and access to credit were positive on households’ food security status and significant at 5% level of probability; while those of household size and monthly income were also positive and significant at 1% level of probability. The results further shows that the most common food insecurity coping strategy used by farming households was borrowing money to buy food items, which was used by 60% of the households and ranked 1st.The study concluded that majority of the farming households were food secure. It recommends that low interest credit should be made available and easily accessible by commercial banks and other lending institutions to farmers since most of households rely on borrowing money to purchase food items in situations of food insecurity.
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