Determination of Health and Poverty Status of Users of Climate Smart Agricultural Techniques in North-west Nigeria
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research established a link existing between climate smart agricultural practices and poverty in North-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria; and was motivated by the increasing consequence of climate change and its impact on poverty status among farmers in the study area. It was based on this that the study examined the impact of climate smart agricultural practices on poverty status among farmers in the zone. The specific objective was to decompose poverty status for high-users and low-users of climate smart agricultural techniques in the study area. While Foster Greer and Thorberk model was used to decomposed poverty into headcount, severity and poverty gap, Watt’s index, Sen, Shorrocks and Thon index were used to analysed the income dimensions’ of poverty . Multi-stage, purposive and random sampling techniques were used to select two hundred and ninety four (294) farming households in the study area. The analysis of poverty reveals that the absolute poverty is 42.38% and relative poverty 27.64. Based on this , the study reccommends that Government, Non-Governmental Organizations and farmer association s should create a conducive learning enviroment to encourage the low - user s of climate smart agriculture to improve on their performance b y adopting more climate smart agricultural activities .
Author: Ekpa Daniel
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2915930963