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    Estimating multidimensional poverty AmongCassava producers in Nigeria: patterns and socioeconomic determinants

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    Date
    2020
    Author
    Olarinde, L.O.
    Abass, A.B.
    Abdoulaye, T.
    Adepoju, A.A.
    Fanifosi, E.G.
    Adio, M.O.
    Adeniyi, O.A.
    Wasiu, A.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    The scourge of poverty, including its correlates, has been witnessing an incremental sequence over the years in Nigeria despite the natural endowment of the country. Efforts by various stakeholders to address this problem have not yielded tangible results. Using cross-sectional data collected in 2015 on 775 cassava farmers spread across four geographical zones, this study estimates multidimensional poverty of cassava producers in Nigeria. This is to determine the factors responsible for poverty increase and contribution(s) of these factors to poverty. The study found that about 74% of the respondents were multidimensionally poor. Assets and public/housing utility were the main contributors to aggregate multidimensional poverty index (MPI), while education and health contributed most to povertyreduction. The results also showed major contributing indicators to MPI to be formal employment, school enrolment, years of schooling, frequency of hospital visits, and household assets’ ownership. The South-eastzone of Nigeria had the highest adjusted headcount of poverty among cassava producers. The estimated coefficient of age, farming experience, years of schooling, household size, and access to informal credit were significant determinants of poverty in the study area. In conclusion, the results suggest that although Nigeria is a federation of more than 30 states that continue to rely on nation-wide policy initiatives of the central government, policies on cassava aiming to lift millions of people out of poverty should instead vary according to the peculiar poverty dimensions of each federation unit. We suggest reform in the agriculture sector that will emphasize facilitation and access to incentives (credits, training, extension, cooperate system, etc.) by younger farmers to engage in modern cassava farming, thereby, enhancing the chances of rural cassava growers to move out of poverty.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12135366
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7685
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Adebayo Abasshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-3608
    Tahirou Abdoulayehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8072-1363
    Wasiu Awoyalehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3635-1414
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12135366
    Research Themes
    Social Science and Agribusiness
    IITA Subjects
    Agribusiness; Agronomy; Cassava; Natural Resource Management; Smallholder Farmers
    Agrovoc Terms
    Poverty; Cassava; Farmers; Nigeria
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Nigeria
    Hubs
    Eastern Africa Hub; Headquarters and Western Africa Hub
    Journals
    Sustainability
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