IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bjc/journl/v11y2024i3p15-24.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Economic Effect of Flood Disaster and its Management Among Smallholder Farmers in Kebbi State

Author

Listed:
  • Abdussalam Adamu Jega

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, PMB 1144, Kebbi State, Nigeria.)

  • Sa’adu Umar

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, PMB 1144, Kebbi State, Nigeria.)

  • Shehu Usman Hassan

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, PMB 1144, Kebbi State, Nigeria.)

Abstract

Increased frequency and intensity of natural hazards coupled with heavy reliance on rain fed agriculture has continue to have negative effect on the socioeconomic livelihood of smallholder farmers across the globe. Hence, this demonstrated the importance of governments’ policy responses in terms of mitigation and recovery to help in reducing flood damage and its social consequences. This study therefore assess the economic effect of flood disaster among smallholder farmer and their perception on flood disaster management in Kebbi state. Data were obtained from 110 affected smallholder farmers using multistage sampling technique and was analyzed through the use of descriptive and paired sample t-test. Findings of this research indicated that flood has a negative economic effect on smallholder farmers’ crop production and income, and flood disaster management strategies were perceived to moderately effective. Hence, this study recommends governments, and other stakeholders to facilitate cost-effective integrated flood management to avoid/reduce future economic losses

Suggested Citation

  • Abdussalam Adamu Jega & Sa’adu Umar & Shehu Usman Hassan, 2024. "Economic Effect of Flood Disaster and its Management Among Smallholder Farmers in Kebbi State," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 11(3), pages 15-24, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:3:p:15-24
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/digital-library/volume-11-issue-3/15-24.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/articles/economic-effect-of-flood-disaster-and-its-management-among-smallholder-farmers-in-kebbi-state/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Samir Shehu Danhassan & Ahmed Abubakar & Aminu Sulaiman Zangina & Mohammad Hadi Ahmad & Saddam A. Hazaea & Mohd Yusoff Ishak & Jiahua Zhang, 2023. "Flood Policy and Governance: A Pathway for Policy Coherence in Nigeria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-24, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bjc:journl:v:11:y:2024:i:3:p:15-24. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Dr. Renu Malsaria (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/ .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.