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Women produce between 60 to 80 percent of the food in Nigeria. They are also responsible for managing household resources, yet their key role as producers and providers and their critical contribution to household food security has not been fully recognized. Therefore, this research identified the vital roles of women as the major pillars for achieving sustainable household food security. The result showed that women play significant roles in food availability and food security. Also, a positively significant relationship was shown between income generating activities and women's roles in ensuring food security. Due to the fact that women face a lot of social, cultural and economic constraints in performing their roles, there is therefore the need for capacity building to enhance income generating activities through provision of credit facilities, education and other resources for sustainable national and household food security. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service:

The study focused on stress-coping strategies employed by poultry and cassava farmers based on gender. Very large proportions of them were married (78%) and educated (63.3%). Mean age and mean income of 40 years and N11, 000-N15, 000 respectively were recorded; family size also had a mean of 4 members. With respect to farm size, an average of 5.56 plots was recorded for cassava and 1073 birds were in the poultry farms. Sources of stress are basically financial, weather, work-related, health-related and other people, social and psychological stress. Stress coping strategies are copious problem solving for financial, weather, work-related stressors and other people, relaxation and spiritual techniques for health related stressors and seeking social support from other people. The results of the study also revealed that there are no differences in stress coping strategies employed by gender among the poultry and cassava farmers (Financial stressor t=1.097; P=.275; weather t=1.644; P=.103; work relate t=.355; P=.724; health t=-1.902; P=.060 and other people t=.942; P=.348). To maintain and improve the current level of agricultural productivity in the country, all conditions that reduce farmers' efficacy must be eliminated. The farmers also need counselling services in order for them to be able to cope with stressful conditions.

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