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Towards Food Security: Adoption Benefits Of Climate-Smart Conservation Agriculture In Southwest Nigeria

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  • Seyi Olalekan Olawuyi

    (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

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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

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  • Seyi Olalekan Olawuyi, 2021. "Towards Food Security: Adoption Benefits Of Climate-Smart Conservation Agriculture In Southwest Nigeria," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 55(1), pages 265-282, January-M.
    • Handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.55:year:2021:issue1:pp:265-282
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    JEL classification:

    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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