 DOES HUMAN CAPITAL EXPLAIN FOOD INSECURITY STATUS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS OR VICE-VERSA?Oluwakemi Obayelu, Abimbola Adepoju and Olukemi Omirin Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics (RAAE), 2019, vol. 22, issue 01 Abstract: Food security and human development are intricately linked and no meaningful progress can be sustained without an affiliated progress on the other. Fighting food insecurity therefore requires an increase in the level of human capital. However, food insecurity and low level of human capital development are major challenges among the rural milieu in Nigeria. The effect of human capital on food insecurity status among rural households in Nigeria was therefore investigated in this study. Principal Component Analysis was used to generate human capital index which comprised age, age squared, education, number of inactive days and body mass index of the household head. Household heads that had medium level of human capital were food secure. Human capital index, household size, being a male-headed household, membership of association, land ownership and access to extension significantly reduced food insecurity. Although human capital index had a negative effect on food insecurity, there was no bicausality between them. Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:roaaec:285933 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics (RAAE) from Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra Contact information at EDIRC. |
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