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Ms. Zainab Oyetunde – Usman
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Medway Campus, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, UK

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Journal article
Published: 07 July 2021 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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Soil fertility depletion is acknowledged to adversely influence agricultural productivity and welfare status of rural farming households. Studies have shown that organic fertilizer utilization tends to rejuvenate the soil, thereby enhancing its productive capacity. This study seeks to estimate the welfare impact of organic fertilizer adoption among agricultural households using the 2018/2019 Nigeria General Household Survey (GHS). The novelty of this study is in the use of propensity score matching (PSM) and endogenous treatment regression (ETR) to address biases that may arise from both observed and unobserved factors. Results show that the adoption of organic fertilizers positively and significantly impacts the welfare of farmers, particularly when sources of unobserved characteristics of agricultural households are accounted for. The heterogeneity impact results show that female household heads, agricultural households that had access to credit, and farm household residents in the southern region of Nigeria significantly gained more from the adoption of organic fertilizers. In addition, a check for time effect reveals that the adoption of organic fertilizers does not result in an immediate welfare effect; the effect is, however, positive and significant over time. This suggests that adoption does not only improve soil and mitigate against climate impact, but it also has a higher likelihood of providing long-term and sustainable welfare impact for agricultural households. The results point to the need for policies and programs to promote and sustain the adoption of organic fertilizers among agricultural households through addressing existing institutional barriers such as extension and credit facilities.

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Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo; Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju; Omotuyole Isiaka Ambali; Waheed Mobolaji Ashagidigbi. Welfare Impact of Organic Fertilizer Adoption: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2021, 5, 1 .

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Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo, Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Omotuyole Isiaka Ambali, Waheed Mobolaji Ashagidigbi. Welfare Impact of Organic Fertilizer Adoption: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 2021; 5 ():1.

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Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo; Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju; Omotuyole Isiaka Ambali; Waheed Mobolaji Ashagidigbi. 2021. "Welfare Impact of Organic Fertilizer Adoption: Empirical Evidence From Nigeria." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5, no. : 1.

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Published: 29 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Studies have shown that climate change adaptation options (CCA) are implemented to buffer the unfavorable climatic changes in Nigeria causing a decline in food security. Against the background of measuring the impact of CCA options using cross-sectional data, this study assessed how CCA had affected food security using panel data on farming households from 2010–2016 obtained from Nigerian General Household Survey (GHS). Data were analyzed using the Panel probit model (PPM), Propensity Score Matching (PSM), and Difference-in-Difference (DID) regression. PPM showed that the probability of adopting CCA options increased with farm size (p < 0.01), extension contact (p < 0.01), and marital status (p < 0.01), but decreased with the age of the household head (p < 0.01). Credit facilities (p < 0.05), ownership of farmland (p < 0.01), household size (p < 0.01), years of schooling (p < 0.01), household asset (p < 0.01), and location (p < 0.05) also had a significant but mixed effect on CCA choices. PSM revealed that farming households that adopted CCA strategies had 9% higher food security levels than non-adopters. Furthermore, the result of the DID model revealed a significant positive effect of CCA on household food security (β = 5.93, p < 0.01). It was recommended that education and provision of quality advisory services to farmers is crucial to foster the implementation of CCA options.

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Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo; Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Jolaosho Surajudeen. Impact of Climate Change Adaptation on Household Food Security in Nigeria-a Difference-in-Difference Approach. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1444 .

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Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo, Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Jolaosho Surajudeen. Impact of Climate Change Adaptation on Household Food Security in Nigeria-a Difference-in-Difference Approach. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1444.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Oyinlola Rafiat Ogunpaimo; Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Jolaosho Surajudeen. 2021. "Impact of Climate Change Adaptation on Household Food Security in Nigeria-a Difference-in-Difference Approach." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1444.

Journal article
Published: 10 October 2019 in Economies
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The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secure and food-insecure agricultural households. We further assessed the determinants of agricultural households’ inefficiencies within the stochastic frontier model and adopted a standard probit model to assess the determinants of households’ food security status. The results of our analyses revealed that; on the overall, the agricultural households had a mean technical efficiency of 52%, suggesting that agricultural households have the tendency of improving their technical efficiency by 48% using the available resource more efficiently. We found that households that are food-secure are more technically efficient than food in-secure households and this was significant at one-percent. Our results provide useful insights into the role of land size and number of assets as determinants of agricultural households’ food security and technical efficiency status.

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Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju. Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria. Economies 2019, 7, 103 .

AMA Style

Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju. Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria. Economies. 2019; 7 (4):103.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Zainab Oyetunde-Usman; Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju. 2019. "Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria." Economies 7, no. 4: 103.