Contributions of rural women entrepreneurs in non–farm and off–farm enterprises of households poverty reduction in Abia State

Obinna, Leo O.; Onu, Samson Ejike

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“…Off-farm activities help the rural poor to complement yield and income from agriculture to meet the social welfare needs of their families. This finding lends credence to the submission of Obinna and Onu (2017) who reported that rural residents engage in off-farm activities to supplement income to reduce the risk associated with income generated solely from agricultural activities. The finding of the study also revealed that the coefficient of the self-help group (X7) was positive and significant at a 1% probability level.…”

Section: Determinants Of Poverty Among the Rural Farming Householdssupporting

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Poverty and its Alleviating Strategies among Rural Farming Households in Benue State, Nigeria

Upev

Michael

Mshelia

et al. 2021

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The study analysed rural farming households’ poverty status and alleviating strategies in Benue State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to: describes the rural household heads’ socio-economic characteristics; determine the poverty status of the respondents and its determinants; and identify poverty alleviating strategies of the respondents. Data for the study was collected from 420 respondents selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics, the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measurement index, and the Binary Logistic regression model. The findings of the study revealed a very high incidence of poverty (70%), having a gap of 0.34, and severity of 0.17. Poverty in the area is positively associated with the age of the household head and household size, while gender, educational level, off-farm activity, membership of a group, farm size, and land ownership are negatively associated with poverty. The common poverty alleviation strategies identified were agricultural wage labour (48.6%), rental services (45.0%), and transportation business (36.7%). Therefore, it was recommended that the government and other stakeholders should initiate sustainable social protection schemes that can assist rural residents in alleviating poverty until their condition improves.

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Poverty and its Alleviating Strategies among Rural Farming Households in Benue State, Nigeria

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Mshelia

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“…The vast proportion of farmers that diversified into other economic activities can be ascribed to the limited land mass in South East Zone of Nigeria with the population competing for the little available arable land. Furthermore, Obinna and Onu (2017) opined that the meager income derived from farm enterprises compels households in rural African societies to engage in non-farm activities to supplement income, in order to lessen risk inherent in income from agricultural activities. He went ahead to explain that in places with limited land, the non-farm activities serve as vital economic option for the poor rural households.…”

Section: Economic Activities Engaged In By Farm Households In Southeast Nigeriamentioning

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Farm and non-farm income diversification activities among rural households in southeast, Nigeria

Odoh¹,

Nwibo²,

Victor³

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The study assessed farm and non-farm income diversification activities among rural households in Southeast, Nigeria. Purposive and multi-stage random sampling techniques were used to collection data from three hundred and sixty (360) rural households using structured interview schedule. Means, percentage and frequency count were used to analyse the objectives of the study. The result showed that 82.5 % of rural households diversified their income sources into other non-farm activities as against 17.5% that depended solely to farm activities. Further analysis indicated that 64.4 % of the rural households engaged in crop production, 46.9 % practiced livestock production, 5% were into collection of forestry products, 13.1 % engaged in farm products processing while 23.3 % engaged in storage and marketing of agricultural products. However, the various non-farm activities diversified into by the households were: petty trading (53.53 %), storage and marketing of agricultural commodities (31.31 %), sale of landed property (15.82 %), agricultural wage labour (16.84 %) and hire purchase (9.09 %). Others included rental services (19.52 %), transportation (example taxis, motorcycle and tri-cycle business) (21.21 %), craftsmanship (13.46 %) and civil/public service jobs (28.28 %). The study recommended that government should improve rural infrastructures like good road network, electrification, potable water, telecommunication service, and affordable healthcare system since they are important for enhancing socio-economic activities. It is also recommended that government should initiate policy for reducing risk and uncertainties inherent in agricultural activities in order to encourage farmers to remain in the business of farming.

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“…It was found that men were more creative as compared to women. Obinna and Ejike (2017) surveyed 180 respondents from Abia State of Nigeria using multi-stage sampling. The author recommended the formation of cooperative to encourage rural entrepreneurship.…”

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“…Rural areas are generally portrayed as backward, peripheral, deficit in entrepreneurial activities (Markantoni and Hoven, 2012). Academicians and governments focus on rural entrepreneurship as it symbolises innovations (Kabgu, 2018;Nosratabadi et al, 2020), selfemployment, reduces poverty (Obinna and Ejike, 2017;Osei and Zhuang, 2020), growth of economy (Kyrgidou and Petridou, 2013), and thus ensures dynamic and sustainable (Warren-Smith and Jackson, 2004) economies. In developing economies across the globe, it has been noted that rural women are engaged in child care activities (Markantoni and Hoven, 2012) and other household work.…”

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Rural women entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and beyond

Aggarwal¹,

Johal²

2021

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PurposeRural women entrepreneurship has been a domain attracting academicians and governments. This paper aims to to annotate existing literature in order to find a nexus between rural women and entrepreneurship using a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis. Further, it has a certain scope and direction of existing research by critically analysing the work published in the domain of rural women entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approachOut of 213 documents, 192 were published during last 20 years till October 2020 in Scopus journals that were downloaded using the keywords “Women Entrepreneurship” OR “Female Entrepreneurs” OR “Women Entrepreneurs” OR “Female Entrepreneurship” AND rural were accepted for further processing. VOS-Viewer software has been used to present bibliometric analysis. A thematic analysis of top 10 papers and 26 open access papers has also been done.FindingsIt was found that research interest in the said domain gained momentum in the last decade only. India is the top country that is publishing maximum papers; the United Kingdom has the maximum citations. The existing studies have focussed on factors influencing entrepreneurship, impact of gender and role of government schemes in fostering entrepreneurship. It is recommended that future studies may explore few inadequately explored grey areas including impact of entrepreneurial education, microcredit and information technology on rural women entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThis literature review article contributes to the existing literature by identifying the scope and direction of the existing literature. Further, it helps in identifying the least explored areas that can be taken up for the conduct of future research.

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Contributions of rural women entrepreneurs in non–farm and off–farm enterprises of households poverty reduction in Abia State

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Poverty and its Alleviating Strategies among Rural Farming Households in Benue State, Nigeria

Poverty and its Alleviating Strategies among Rural Farming Households in Benue State, Nigeria

Farm and non-farm income diversification activities among rural households in southeast, Nigeria

Rural women entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and beyond

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