Abstract
Assessing the impact of the adoption of agroforestry technology on food production and poverty reduction among farming households in Oyo State, Nigeria
Highlights
Poverty in Nigeria has been on the increase, notwithstanding several governmental and nongovernmental interventions to reduce it through poverty alleviation/reduction programmes and projects (Adepoju and Okunmadewa, 2010)
It was discovered that about 27% of the adopters fell below the poverty line and were regarded as poor while about 67% of the non-adopters fell below the poverty line and can be described as poor
It can be inferred that the impact of the adoption of agroforestry practices on farmers’ income in the study area produces a positive and significant impact on the farmers’income while the result of the impact of adoption of agroforestry practices on farmers’ output in the study area produces a negative but not significant impact on the farmers’ yields
Summary
Poverty in Nigeria has been on the increase, notwithstanding several governmental and nongovernmental interventions to reduce it through poverty alleviation/reduction programmes and projects (Adepoju and Okunmadewa, 2010). Owing to slow growth, poverty has been on the rise (World Bank, 2018). Value for 2018 is 0.534 which puts the country in the low human development category, positioning it at 158 out of 189 countries and territories. In Nigeria, poverty has persisted and many interventions have not yielded noticeable improvement in the country’s Human Development Index. Plagued with the challenges of the effects of Covid-19, unemployment crises, climate change, conflict, fragility and violence, Nigeria (the most populous country in Africa) stands at a grave risk if poverty is not tackled (Danaan, 2018)
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