Abstract
As urbanization increases, the locus of poverty is slowly shifting from rural to urban areas in what is known as urbanization of poverty. Thus, understanding how urban food system operate and finding ways to ensure that they remain sustainable is a mounting preoccupation. But urban livestock production has the potential to provide a significant contribution to the urban food security now and in the future and can lift the urban poor out of poverty. Information on resource use in deep litter poultry system is largely limited. Stochastic production frontier functions was used for data from deep litter poultry farmers to examine their efficiency technically, output orientation and level of farm. Farmers’ consideration was through the multistage sampling procedure. Maximum likelihood based on estimation of parameters helped in the determination of efficiency. The study revealed that, land, water,medication, capital and labour. The result 0.76 mean efficiency suggests output from deep litter poultry production could be increased with available technology. Policies aimed at encouraging farmers to access productive resources would be sensible decision.
 Citation: Etim, N. A., Etim, N. N. and Mohammed, J. Resource Use in Deep Litter Poultry System: Implications for Urban Food Security, 2020; 5(3): 38-44.
 Received: April 4, 2020Accepted: September 30, 2020
Highlights
Issues about food security has been topical and feature prominently within development policy indicators
The findings revealed that average farm size for poultry on small farms resulted in 100m2. This could be because of the labor-intensiveness of poultry production or because the farmers were incapable of acquiring larger holdings
The relative large coefficient for labour is an indication that deep litter poultry production is highly labour intensive and impacts positively on efficiency of resource use and food security
Summary
Issues about food security has been topical and feature prominently within development policy indicators. Urban livestock production has the potential to support urban food security and can lift the urban poor out of poverty. Resource poor farmers play an important part for food production and security yet they have to cope with numerous challenges including inefficient management and over-use of resources. To optimize production and ensure food security, resources must be managed and utilized as efficiently as possible.
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