Factors Influencing Food Security among Maize-Based Farmers in Southwestern Nigeria
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Agricultural Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
The study examinedthe factors influencing the food security among the farming households in the south western part of Nigeria. Specifically, it profiled the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers with respect to their food security status, categorized them based on diversity of food consumed, identified the challenges of food insecurity and the strategies adopted by the farmers to withstand the effects of food insecurity. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 239 respondents from the study area. Descriptive statistics, composite score and Logit regression model was used to analyse the data collected. Result revealed that 63.59 percent of the respondents were food secured while 36.4 were food insecure. Average age for food secure category was 47 years while their counterpart was 45 years. The mean household size for the food secure category was 7 members which was less than that of food insecure category. They also have more years of farming experience (18 years) relative to their counterpart. Comparatively, only 19.74 percent of the food secure farmers consumed low food diversity while barely 18.39 percent of the food insecure consumed high food diversity. Over 90 percent of the farmers in both categories attested that food price volatility was a major problem they face in the study area. Also, generationof othersources of income ranked highest on the coping strategies adopted by farmers to cushion the effect of food insecurity for thecategoriesstudied. Farmers’ age, marital status and total household income positively influence the probability of being food secure while household size negatively influence it. It was recommended that farmers should be encouraged to expand their sources of income, and be married to enhance their food security status. They should also be enlightened more about birth control methods to reduce the tendency of being food insecure.
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Adepoju, Adebusola A. , et al.
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