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Do soil and water conservation practices influence crop productivity and household welfare? Evidence from rural Nigeria

dc.contributor.authorOgunniyi, A.I.
dc.contributor.authorOmotayo, A.O.
dc.contributor.authorOlagunju, K.O.
dc.contributor.authorMotunrayo, O.
dc.contributor.authorAwotide, B.A.
dc.contributor.authorMavrotas, G.
dc.contributor.authorAremu, A.O.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-20T10:04:01Z
dc.date.available2023-06-20T10:04:01Z
dc.date.issued2023-04
dc.identifier.citationOgunniyi, A.I., Omotayo, A.O., Olagunju, K.O., Motunrayo, O., Awotide, B.A., Mavrotas, G. & Aremu, A.O. (2023). Do soil and water conservation practices influence crop productivity and household welfare? Evidence from rural Nigeria. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 30(19), 56016-56036.
dc.identifier.issn0944-1344
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/8208
dc.description.abstractOne of the most serious challenges threatening agricultural sustainability in Nigeria is land degradation. Although this issue has received little attention, soil and water conservation practices have been identified as a possible pathway out of the potential problems posed by land degradation. Therefore, the central research question that this paper tries to address is the following: Do adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices affect crop productivity and household welfare? This paper uses data collected by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) from maize farmers in rural Nigeria. We usedemploy the propensity score matching (PSM), inverse probability weighting adjusted regression model (IPWRA) approach, and the linear regression with endogenous treatment effect (LRETE) model to incorporate the typologies of SWC practices, and tested how the model affects crop productivity and household welfare. Additionally, multinomial logit was used to estimate the factors influencing the decision to adopt single and multiple SWC practices. The estimates show that education, age of the household head, access to credit, experience of drought, soil fertility, and occupational stress contribute to the decision to adopt SWC practices. The casual effect estimates reveal that both single and multiple adoptions of SWC practices had a positive and significant relationship with the crop productivity and welfare of the adopters. The results show that the adoption of combined SWC practices has a higher impact on crop productivity and welfare than single SWC practices. For instance, the adoption of a combination of three SWC practices was found to increase crop productivity and household welfare by 27.55% and 38.23%, respectively versus 13.91% and 15.11% in the case of single SWC practices. The study suggests that profile-raising agenda and efforts that focus on promoting the adoption of combination of SWC practices should be designed and implemented to enhance crop productivity and hence the welfare of the maize farming households in rural Nigeria.
dc.description.sponsorshipBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipHoward G. Buffett Foundation
dc.format.extent56016-56036
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAgriculture
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectSoil Conservation
dc.subjectWater Conservation
dc.subjectCrop Production
dc.subjectRural Communities
dc.subjectHouseholds
dc.subjectNigeria
dc.titleDo soil and water conservation practices influence crop productivity and household welfare? Evidence from rural Nigeria
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Fund for Agricultural Development
cg.contributor.affiliationNorth-West University, South Africa
cg.contributor.affiliationDepartment of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Antwerp
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidOGUNNIYI:2023
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectPlant Breeding
cg.iitasubjectPlant Production
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.journalEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research
cg.notesPublished online: 13 Mar 2023
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-26280-2
cg.iitaauthor.identifierBola Amoke Awotide: 0000-0002-0081-6435
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cg.futureupdate.duration3 Months
cg.identifier.issue19
cg.identifier.volume30


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