Farming Households’ Environment, Nutrition and Health Interplay in Southwest, Nigeria

Omotayo, Abiodun Olusola

doi:10.12983/ijsras-2016-p0084-0098

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“…This might be true as the increase in age of participants might translate into more experience which invariably translates into higher income. This corroborates with existing studies indicating earnings increases with increasing age, specialized skill trainings, and/or education of the household heads [58][59][60]. In addition, the results also show that marital status of the household head was positively and significantly related to income (p < 0.05).…”

Section: Determinants Of Household's Income: Ols Regressionsupporting

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Determinants of Household Income and Willingness to Pay for Indigenous Plants in North West Province, South Africa: A Two-Stage Heckman Approach

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Using a cross-sectional dataset, this study examines the factors influencing the income and willingness to pay for indigenous plants by rural households in the North West Province of South Africa. The method of data analysis was based on a two-stage Heckman model. Based on empirical data, the majority (93%) of the households are willing to pay for the indigenous plants. Furthermore, factors such as the age of the household’s head, marital status, size of households, financial returns and economic benefit of indigenous plants significantly influenced income and willingness to pay for indigenous plants by the households. Thus, indigenous plants have the potential to penetrate local and international markets and can be used to improve the economies, livelihood, and food security status of rural households in South Africa. Indigenous plant cultivation can increase agro-food system species diversity while conserving plant species indigenous to this area of South Africa. Encouraging both consumption and production of indigenous plants can also help diversify local economies and communities.

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Section: Determinants Of Household's Income: Ols Regressionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Determinants of Household Income and Willingness to Pay for Indigenous Plants in North West Province, South Africa: A Two-Stage Heckman Approach

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“…More so, the educational status of the farming households' head shows that 43.10% of the pooled respondents have secondary education with mean years of education of 9.28 years. The implication of these results is that higher number educational year could have a positive influence on the ability of the farmers to know their nutrition composition of food and the need for diversity ( Omotayo, 2016b ).…”

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Parametric assessment of household's food intake, agricultural practices and health in rural South West, Nigeria

Omotayo

2020

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Food intake and health are important component of agriculture. The contribution of these duo have a lot to say about the productivity of farmers in the nations of the world. The results presented here relied on data collected on households' food intake nutrition and health profile through multistage random sampling of 420 households selected from the Southwest, Nigeria using well-structured questionnaires. Descriptive statistics (percentage, frequency, mean) and inferential statistics (Logistic regression and Negative Binomial). The result shows that the farmers were ageing, given an average of (53 ± 11.44 years). The Logistic regression model of the effect of farming households food intake on health showed that gender of the households' head, marital states of the head, household food security and knowledge of nutrition significantly reduced the probability of reporting good health while the educational year(s) of the farmers, total cost of health and consumption of fruit increased it. In addition, the Negative Binomial Regression model, employed in the assessment of the effect of farming households' nutrition on health indicated that gender, marital status, and consumption of milk and total cost of health significantly increased day(s) incapacitated while the year(s) of education reduced it. It was therefore concluded that diversity of food intake among the farmers was low. Ageing, education and large household size among others, were also identified as major problem among the rural farmers. It was however recommended that considerable investment in human capital should be encouraged since food diversity and nutrition education enhances households’ food intake and health status.

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“…Empirical studies have shown that households in developing countries are unable to sustain current levels of consumption during and after severe health crises due to substantial increase in medical expenditure and/or loss of income ( Wagstaff and Lindelow, 2010 ; Sparrow et al., 2014 ; Alam and Mahal, 2014 ; Nguyen et al., 2020 ). Health events are also found to have an adverse impact on nutritional status and educational attainment of household members ( Dhanaraj, 2016 ; Omotayo, 2016a ). Health shocks, whether an event of death or disease, can cause significant adverse economic outcomes for households in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).…”

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“…The access to competitive health care system has drastically declined due to the high rate of poverty and deprivation in Nigeria. The weak economic stability in the country has affected various sectors of the economy including the health sector leading to low productivity, poor service delivery and poor health outcomes ( Omotayo, 2016a , 2020 ). The Nigerian health sector is still striving to provide basic health care services with the collaborative efforts of the three tiers of government but efforts to achieve this seem impracticable due to the current state of the economy ( Eko, 2017 ).…”

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Does economic shocks influence household's healthcare expenditure? Evidence from rural Nigeria

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Health is profoundly influenced by several factors outside the traditional realm of healthcare. This paper employed a two-step Heckman selectivity model to examine factors influencing the decision to spend on health and the effects of economic shocks on health expenditure. The results from the first stage shows that the likelihood of spending on health increased with age, education, income, and decreases if the household is living in the northern region of Nigeria and uses mosquito bed-net. The findings from the second stage estimation show that a fall in the price of food items, an increase in the price of inputs for household enterprises and loss of job are the significant shocks that affect household health expenditure. Based on these findings, this study concluded that fall in the prices of major food items consumed within the household increased income available for health care among the farmers. Going forward, the study recommends the provision of holistic health-economic-welfare interventions for the marginalized rural populace in Nigeria.

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Farming Households’ Environment, Nutrition and Health Interplay in Southwest, Nigeria

Cited by 23 publications

References 22 publications

Determinants of Household Income and Willingness to Pay for Indigenous Plants in North West Province, South Africa: A Two-Stage Heckman Approach

Determinants of Household Income and Willingness to Pay for Indigenous Plants in North West Province, South Africa: A Two-Stage Heckman Approach

Parametric assessment of household's food intake, agricultural practices and health in rural South West, Nigeria

Does economic shocks influence household's healthcare expenditure? Evidence from rural Nigeria

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