Data for this study was collected using multi-stage sampling technique using structured questionnaire and interview schedules during the 2012/2013 farming season, obtained from randomly selecting 12 LGAs from the 46 LGAs, followed by the random selection of five villages in each...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13321
Aims: The major objective of this study is to find out the proportion of commercial poultry farmers in the study area who procure credit for financing the production and determine the effect of credit on commercialization level of poultry farming in three selected local governmen...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2012/1960
Aims: To ascertain the risk status of farming households and whether the risk status is accentuated by some factors. The specific objective is to determine the relationship between their risk status and socio-economic characteristics and food security status in the study area. St...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2012/1284
Aims: Examine the gender, cultural, social and religious dimensions of shea economy in Nigeria and determine how they aid in income and welfare. Study Design: The study was conducted in Nigeria which is in Western Africa. Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed in sampling th...
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Research Article10.9734/sajsse/2026/v23i21266
Climate variability has the potential to worsen existing vulnerabilities such as Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. This study examined the farmers’ perception of climate change and adaptation to poverty diseases along river Niger. Primary data were collected through questionnai...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2023/v22i1427
Many of the diseases contributing to the disease burden in low-income countries are tightly linked to the debilitating conditions of poverty. At the global level, there are three primary poverty-related diseases (PRDs) acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), malaria and tuber...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2023/v21i4426
Aim: Adaptive capacity is the ability of the farmer to adjust his farm plans and programmes in the face of emerging risks, constraints and currently available information. In this study, the various constraints faced by International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i230178
Societies which rely upon agriculture for their livelihood may face the perils of climate change, especially developing countries in the tropics and subtropics such as Nigeria in which some of the food crops are already close their peak temperature tolerance. This study was to ev...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28441
Poverty incidence in Nigeria is higher among the rural-folks, that is, households that rely mainly on fundamentally on agricultural income. This study investigated poverty status of farm households in selected Local Government areas of Niger State, Nigeria. The study utilized dat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/25681
The study examined the sources of risk and management strategies of monocropping and intercopping systems in Kebbi State, Nigeria with the aim of identifying the most important sources of risk and coping strategies. The study is based on primary data gathered through a questionna...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/17308
The research investigated the technical efficiency of farmers in Kebbi State Nigeria, with the aim of generating reliable information on the determinants of efficiency. In order to achieve the objective of the study, Data Envelopment Analysis, Double Bootstrapping procedure withi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14155