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    Smallholder agroprocessors' willingness to pay for value-added solid-waste management solutions

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    Date
    2019-03-23
    Author
    Omilani, O.
    Abass, A.
    Okoruwa, V.O.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    The paper examined the willingness of smallholder cassava processors to pay for value-added solid wastes management solutions in Nigeria. We employed a multistage sampling procedure to obtain primary data from 403 cassava processors from the forest and Guinea savannah zones of Nigeria. Contingent valuation and logistic regression were used to determine the willingness of the processors to pay for improved waste management options and the factors influencing their decision on the type of waste management system adopted and willingness to pay for a value-added solid-waste management system option. Women constituted the largest population of smallholder cassava processors, and the processors generated a lot of solid waste (605–878 kg/processor/season). Waste was usually dumped (59.6%), given to others (58.1%), or sold in wet (27.8%) or dry (35.5%) forms. The factors influencing the processors’ decision on the type of waste management system to adopt included sex of processors, membership of an association, quantity of cassava processed and ownership structure. Whereas the processors were willing to pay for new training on improved waste management technologies, they were not willing to pay more than US$3. However, US$3 may be paid for training in mushroom production. It is expected that public expenditure on training to empower processors to use solid-waste conversion technologies for generating value-added products will lead to such social benefits as lower exposure to environmental toxins from the air, rivers and underground water, among others, and additional income for the smallholder processors. The output of the study can serve as the basis for developing usable and affordable solid-waste management systems for community cassava processing units in African countries involved in cassava production.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061759
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5557
    Non-IITA Authors ORCID
    Adebayo Abasshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-3608
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11061759
    Research Themes
    SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
    IITA Subjects
    Agribusiness
    Agrovoc Terms
    Cassava; Smallholders; Solid Wastes; Pollution; Value Added; Willingness To Pay
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Nigeria
    Journals
    Sustainability
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