Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria

Lateef Olalekan Bello, Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi, Kehinde Olagunju, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Victor Manyong, Zoumana Bamba and Bola Amoke Awotide
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Lateef Olalekan Bello: Discipline of Agricultural Economics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi: Discipline of Agricultural Economics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
Gideon Danso-Abbeam: Department of Agribusiness, University for Development Studies, Tamale P.O. Box TL 1350, Ghana
Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Abuja 90021, Nigeria
Kehinde Olagunju: Department of Agri-food Economics and Trade, Poznan University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
Tahirou Abdoulaye: Social Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Bamako 91094, Mali
Victor Manyong: Social Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dar es Salam 34441, Tanzania
Zoumana Bamba: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Country Representative, Kinshasa 4163, Congo
Bola Amoke Awotide: Social Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Bamako 91094, Mali

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: Poverty persists in many developing countries, including Nigeria, owing to inadequate infrastructure, unemployment, or poor working conditions, among other factors. Youth poverty and vulnerability to poverty have been identified to prevalent among the young population. Using an endogenous switching probit regression approach, in this study, we evaluated the impacts of youth participation in agribusiness programs (YIAPs) on poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria. Our findings revealed that some demographic and institutional factors significantly influence poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth. The impact estimates indicate that participation in an agribusiness program has a significant positive effect on poverty reduction among youth. Moreover, there would have been about a 28% reduction in exposure to future poverty for non-participants had they participated in a YIAP. Our results suggest that intervention programs, such as YIAPs, that focus on skill acquisition and youth empowerment should be strengthened and scaled-up in order to improve youth welfare and subsequently reduce/eradicate poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth.

Keywords: poverty; youth; agribusiness program; endogenous switching probit regression; Nigeria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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