Efficiency, food security and differentiation in small-scale irrigation agriculture: Evidence from North West Nigeria

Adeniyi, Daniel Adeoluwa; Dinbabo, Mulugeta F.

doi:10.1080/23311886.2020.1749508

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“…The results of this study are different from the results of research by Ogundari and Koirala et al which stated that the technical efficiency of the agricultural sector influenced food security. The results of this study are also different from those of Ogundari 9 , Koirala et al 10 , Adeniyi and Dinbabo 11 , Majumder et al 12 , Oyakhilomen et al 13 , as well as Oyetunde-Usman and Olagunju 14 which stated that the technical efficiency of the agricultural sector affected food security. Meanwhile, the results of research by Iheke and Onyendi are the same with the results of this study which revealed that technical efficiency does not have a significant effect on food security 15 .…”

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“…Technical efficiency with SFA showed that the average efficiency was 0.85. It also found that there is a positive and significant relationship between technical efficiency, income and food security 11 . Majumder et al in their research stated that there is a way to reduce post-harvest losses of rice and increasing food security in Bangladesh.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Technical efficiency among agricultural households and determinants of food security in East Java, Indonesia

Hakim

Haryanto

Sari

2021

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Rice is a staple food in East Java, and the average consumption is 100 kg/capita/year. However, rice productivity has declined dramatically in recent years. Food security can be reached by improving the technical efficiency of rice farming, especially in rice farming centers such as East Java Province. This study aims to measure technical efficiency and its determinants using two limit tobit. And it also aims to examine the effect of the technical efficiency of rice farming on food security using logit regression. Technical efficiency will be measured by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results show that the technical efficiency of rice farming is very low in East Java. Government assistance, irrigation, and extension have a significant effect on technical efficiency. Meanwhile, membership of farmer organization has no effect on technical efficiency. Around 69% of farmers can be categorized as food secure households. The estimation of logit regression shows that household size, income, land size, education, age, and gender significantly influence food security in East Java. Meanwhile, credit and technical efficiency did not have any significant effect.

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Technical efficiency among agricultural households and determinants of food security in East Java, Indonesia

Hakim

Haryanto

Sari

2021

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“…There are also analyses indicating the influence of human capital on EE, especially through its close relationship with eco-innovativeness [49]. This makes human capital even more crucial for small-and medium-sized family farms [50]. Thus, analyses analogous to those already discussed and related to EE were conducted.…”

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Eco-Efficiency and Human Capital Efficiency: Example of Small- and Medium-Sized Family Farms in Selected European Countries

Polcyn

2021

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Small- and medium-sized family farms are places to live and sources of income for about half of the population. The aim of this analysis was to determine the relationship between eco-efficiency and human capital efficiency on small- and medium-sized family farms. The analysis was carried out using an economic measure (value of agricultural production per work hour calculated per hectare) and two synthetic measures (human capital and environmental measures). The synthetic measures were determined using the TOPSIS-CRITIC method by defining weights for variables used in the measures. The analysis covered five countries: Lithuania (960 farms), Moldavia (532 farms), Poland (696 farms), Romania (872 farms) and Serbia (524 farms). All of these countries are characterised by a high fragmentation of agricultural holdings. The analysis allowed us to formulate the following conclusions: eco-efficiency and human capital efficiency indices increased with area for small- and medium-sized family farms. An increase in the eco-efficiency index with an increase in farm area suggests that the smaller the farm area, the more extensive the agricultural production that was carried out. In addition, an increase in human capital efficiency with an increase in farm area indicates that there was inefficiency in the utilisation of human capital resources on the agricultural farms studied.

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“…There are also analyses indicating the influence of human capital on EE, especially through its close relationship with eco-innovativeness [49]. This makes human capital even more crucial in small and medium-sized family farms [50]. Thus, analogous analyses to those already discussed and related to EE were conducted.…”

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Eco-Efficiency and Human Capital Efficiency on the Example of Small and Medium-Sized Family Farms in the Selected European Countries

Polcyn¹

2021

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Small and medium-sized family farms are the place of life and source of income for about half of the population. The aim of the analysis was to determine the relationship between Eco-Efficiency, Human Capital Efficiency in small and medium-sized family farms. The analyses were carried out using an economic measure (value of agricultural production per work hour calculated per 1 ha) and synthetic measures: human capital and environmental measures. The synthetic measures were determined using the CRITIC-TOPSIS method by defining weights for variables used in the synthetic measures. The analyses covered five countries, namely: Lithuania (960 farms), Moldova (532 farms), Poland (696 farms), Romania (872 farms), and Serbia (524 farms). All the countries qualified for analysis are characterised by a high fragmentation of agricultural holdings. The analyses carried out allowed us to formulate the following conclusions: the Eco-Efficiency and Human Capital Efficiency indexes increase with area for small and medium-sized family agricultural farms. An increase in the Eco-Efficiency index with an increase in farm area leads to a suspicion that the smaller the farm area is, the more extensive the agricultural production being carried out. In addition, an increase in human capital efficiency with an increase in the area of a farm indicates that there is inefficiency in the utilisation of human capital resources in the agricultural farms studied.

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Efficiency, food security and differentiation in small-scale irrigation agriculture: Evidence from North West Nigeria

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

Technical efficiency among agricultural households and determinants of food security in East Java, Indonesia

Technical efficiency among agricultural households and determinants of food security in East Java, Indonesia

Eco-Efficiency and Human Capital Efficiency: Example of Small- and Medium-Sized Family Farms in Selected European Countries

Eco-Efficiency and Human Capital Efficiency on the Example of Small and Medium-Sized Family Farms in the Selected European Countries

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