 TOWARDS FOOD SECURITY: ADOPTION BENEFITS OF CLIMATE-SMART CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIASeyi Olalekan Olawuyi ()
Journal of Developing Areas, 2021, vol. 55, issue 1, 265-282 Abstract: Agricultural productivity increase is fundamental to meeting the rising food demand due to population growth and land degradation. This supply shortfall hinders the sufficient food production and distribution across major settlements in Nigeria. The foregoing underscores the need to investigate the adoption of climate-smart conservation agriculture (CA) in terms of perceived benefits to smallholder farmers in Nigeria. This study used dataset obtained (during 2018 agricultural season) from a household survey of 350 smallholder farmers from South-west Nigeria through a multi-stage sampling technique. The study applied proportional odds model to compare the probability of a farmer enjoying high, medium or low quantum of benefits from CA adoption, while propensity score weighting analysis was also estimated to investigate the effect (intended and unintended) of CA adoption and other important covariates on the benefits derived from CA adoption. Findings from the fitted proportional odds model revealed that: human capital (p Keywords: conservation agriculture; adoption benefits; smallholder farmers; proportional odds model; omnibus brant-test; propensity score weighting; Nigeria (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:jda:journl:vol.55:year:2021:issue1:pp:265-282 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Developing Areas from Tennessee State University, College of Business Contact information at EDIRC. |
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