Livelihood Diversification and Income: A Case Study of Communities Resident Along the Kiri Dam, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Michael, Amurtiya; Lumbonyi, Celestine Andrew; Olayiwola, Sikiru Adekunle; Yaduma, Zacharia Buba; Abdullahi, Aliyu A.

doi:10.17306/jard.2016.75

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 12 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In this study the factors that caused farmers to change their land use include the area of land owned by farmers in the study area, the adequacy of irrigation water for wetland rice, differences in revenue from rice farming with cocoa and oil palm, and trends in the development of prices for lowland rice, cocoa, and palm (Hadi, 2014). There are several causes of the high land use change including low profitability of lowland rice farming, non-compliance with spatial regulations (weak law enforcement on spatial planning), desires to get short-term benefits from the conversion of paddy land, and low coordination between institutions and departments related to use planning land (Amurtiya et al, 2016).…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Land Conversion on Oil Palm Production and Income

Edison*

2020

IJRTE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Objective of study was to evaluate impact of land conversion on oil palm production, evaluate its impact on income of oil palm, and explore effect of social-economic aspects to land conversion of oil palm. Research used cross section data of 200 respondents. Data was analysed using qualitative and quantitative method. Results showed that a significant factors affected oil palm production which included land acreage, labour and capital. Significant factors affected income were selling price and capital. Then, socio-economic factors affected land conversion of oil palm such as education, income and saving. It found that paddy fields are more converted to oil palm fields, in which paddy fields were more in dryland than technical irrigation. Then, in terms of farming analysis, efficiency smallholder oil palm was higher than efficiency paddy (B/C on paddy was of 1.02 and B/C on oil palm was of 1.71).

show abstract

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Land Conversion on Oil Palm Production and Income

Edison*

2020

IJRTE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Following the works of Minot et al (2006), Sultana et al (2015), Amurtiya et al (2016), Wan et al (2016) and Daud et al (2018), the approach used in this study focussed on several statistical measures of income diversification. We established six main sources of income-generating activities as follows: (1) crop and livestock (farm) production, (2) home or community-based non-farm enterprises, 3wage-based income activities through undertaking selling one's labour time on work activities outside the household, (4) property-based rental income such as those derived from renting rooms of the household property, (5) remittances from various social networks, and (6) other sources.…”

Section: Concepts Dealing With the Statistical Analysis Of Income DIVmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Political Economy Analysis of Income Diversification Activities of Rural Households in the Northern Region of Ghana

Salifu¹,

Anaman²

2019

AEF

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study analysed income diversification activities of 1,194 rural households in the Northern Region of Ghana using data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) undertaken by the Government of Ghana, through the Ghana Statistical Service. We found that 92% of rural households were engaged in farm activities affirming agriculture as the dominant profession of rural households in the region. The number of income-generating activities undertaken by these households was significantly related to the size of the household, previous apprenticeship training acquired by the household head, ownership of a motor bike/car, and ownership by the household of specific physical assets which also provide information, communication and entertainment services, namely mobile phone, radio and television sets. The share of wage-based income in the total household income was significantly related to the age of the household. The overall income diversification index was positively influenced by the level of remittances and the number of rooms in the house; the latter allowed for increased possibility of renting rooms in the house to workers. We also established that overall income diversification index was associated with decreasing total household consumption expenditures and reduced food security at relatively low levels. However, this index was linked to increasing household consumption expenditures and improved food security at relatively higher levels. Our findings suggest that income diversification could be an important poverty-reducing measure if well-designed Community and State support programmes for rural households are implemented in the region under conditions of peace and good security.

show abstract