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Analysis of Factors Influencing Livelihood Diversification among Rural Farmers in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria

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Author	Sani, Habib
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	This study was carried out to analyze factors influencing rural farmer’s engagement in livelihood diversification activities in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna state. The specific objectives were to identify farmer’s reasons for engagement in livelihood diversification activities determine the institutional and environmental factors influencing livelihood diversification and examine the effect of livelihood diversification on rural households poverty reduction (food security). Data for the study were collected using a questionnaire administered to 120 randomly selected respondents and analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, logistic regression model and Chi-square. It was found that the main reason why farmers engage in livelihood diversification activities was to raise household’s income portfolio. The logistic regression analysis indicates that membership to farmers organizations (8.42) and natural disaster (5.59) had greater contributing influence on farmers engagement in livelihood diversification activities at 0.05 percent level of significance. Chi-square analysis for cumulative food security index indicates that diversified farmers were relatively food secured (�$ 2 =87) than undiversified farmers (�$ 2 =13) at 0.05 percent level of significance. It was therefore recommended that enabling environment in relation to electricity, small scale industries, access roads, training centers be provided to enable rural farmers, actively engage in varied livelihood sources in addition to farming so as to increase their income sources and address their poverty situation.
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Language	English
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Resource Type	Article

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