The study investigated the capability of Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN)

This study determined the contribution of fish farming to the socio-economic status of fish farmers in Oyo State. A multistage sampling procedure was used to select the respondents resulting in a total number of 120 fish farmers used for this study. The primary data for this study was collected using an interview schedule which was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results revealed that the major constraint to fish farming was lack of access to credit facilities and the contribution of fish farming to the socio-economic status of fish farmers was high. At 0.05 level of significance, significant relationships exist between the respondents age (r=0.389, p=0.004), household size (r=0.286, p=0.002), years of experience (r=0.298, p=0.001), benefits (r=0.279, p=0.002) and their socio-economic status. Chi-square analysis of the result shows that there was significant relationship between marital status (χ2=5.835, p=0.023) and socio-economic status. Based on these findings, the study recommended that credit facilities should be made available to fish farmers and conventional feeds should be available to users at a reduced rate.

Food insecurity and dietary diversity of households are important nutrition outcome which have been found reliable in assessing the dietary intake of a population during a determined period and they have been used as indicators of food security among households. A facility based cross-sectional study design was conducted on 374 households that were involved in backyard livestock production in Southwest Nigeria during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Household dietary diversity (HDD) was measured using 12 different foods from which the HDD score was estimated, which is a continuous score ranged from 0 to 12, and was recoded to a three-level ordered categorical variable. Food insecurity was also assessed using household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS) generated from nine items (questions) specific to an experience of food insecurity occurring within the previous four weeks among the households. A probit regression model was specified to determine the variables responsible for increasing the probability of the households being food insecured during the lockdown. Result showed that more than half of households involved in backyard livestock production was within medium dietary diversity category (71.7%) and moderately had access to food (75.4%). State of residence, household size, income generated by members of households, species of livestock raised and purpose of livestock production were major determinants of food insecurity (access) during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown among the respondents. Thus, there is need to promote sustainable and diversification of livelihood among households through backyard livestock production in a bid to increase and sustain their food security status.     L'insécurité alimentaire et la diversité alimentaire des ménages sont des résultats nutritionnels importants qui se sont avérés fiables pour évaluer l'apport alimentaire d'une population pendant une période déterminée et qui ont été utilisées comme indicateurs de la sécurité alimentaire des ménages. Une conception d'étude transversale basée sur les installations a été menée sur 374 ménages impliqués dans la production de bétail de basse- cour dans le sud-ouest du Nigéria pendant le confinement de la pandémie COVID-19. La diversité alimentaire des ménages (HDD) a été mesurée à l'aide de 12 aliments différents à partir desquels le score HDD a été estimé, qui est un score continu allant de 0 à 12, et a été recodé en une variable catégorielle ordonnée à trois niveaux. L'insécurité alimentaire a également été évaluée à l'aide de l'échelle d'accès à l'insécurité alimentaire des ménages (HFIAS) générée à partir de neuf éléments (questions) spécifiques à une expérience d'insécurité alimentaire survenue au cours des quatre semaines précédentes parmi les ménages. Un modèle de régression probit a été spécifié pour déterminer les variables responsables de l'augmentation de la probabilité que les ménages soient en situation d'insécurité alimentaire pendant le confinement. Les résultats ont montré que plus de la moitié des ménages impliqués dans la production de bétail de basse-cour appartenaient à la catégorie de diversité alimentaire moyenne (71.7%) et avaient modérément accès à la nourriture (75.4%). L'état de résidence, la taille du ménage, les revenus générés par les membres des ménages, les espèces de bétail élevées et le but de la production animale étaient les principaux déterminants de l'insécurité alimentaire (accès) pendant le confinement de la pandémie COVID-19 parmi les répondants. Ainsi, il est nécessaire de promouvoir la durabilité et la diversification des moyens de subsistance parmi les ménages grâce à la production de bétail de basse-cour dans le but d'augmenter et de maintenir leur niveau de sécurité alimentaire.

The study was conducted to assess mini-livestock production as strategy for food security among households in Iwo, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 150 respondents. A structured interview schedule was used to elicit information from the respondents. Household food security was estimated using food security index to establish the food security status of various households. Thus, households were classified into food secured and food insecured. Data were subjected to both descriptive statistics and regression analysis. Most of the respondents were male (72.8 %), they were within the age bracket of 20-24 years, had secondary education (55 %), with household size between 2 to 5 members (45.7%). The study further revealed that 52.3% of the respondents were Christian, were farmers (35.1%) have 5 to 8 years of experience in mini livestock production. They earned more than N5, 000 as income. Also most of the respondents raised mini-livestock purposely for income generation and sourced their flocks from wild (39.1 %). Most of the respondents were raising snail (25.2 %). Majority of the households in the study area were food secured. There is significant and strong correlation between raising of more than one species of minilivestock and food security of the households. Primary occupation and income realized from sales of mini livestock production were found to be significant determinants of food security among households.