Effects of Land Market on Food Security Status among Farming Households in Kogi State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study analysed the effects of land market on food security status among farming households in Kogi State, Nigeria. Findings from the study revealed that 95% of the farming household heads were males with an average age of 54.3years among the farming household heads. The mean household size was 5 members and average schooling years of 11.7years. The respondents had been farming over an average of 26.7years on a mean farm size of 3.4hectares and a mean farm income of N 69,855.31. Logistic estimates on determinants of food security status among the farming households showed that the probability of a farming household being food secured increases with access to credit (β=0.955), involvement in off farm work (β=1.765), and household income (β=0.000) at P<0.01, while plots rent out (β=-2.005) decreases the likelihood of being food secured (hence, food insecure) at 5% level of significance.