Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria
Poverty persists in many developing countries, including Nigeria, owing to inadequate infrastructure, unemployment, or poor working conditions, among other factors. Youth poverty and vulnerability to poverty have been identified to prevalent among the young population. Using an endogenous switching...
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| author | Lateef Olalekan Bello Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi Gideon Danso-Abbeam Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi Kehinde Olagunju Tahirou Abdoulaye Victor Manyong Zoumana Bamba Bola Amoke Awotide |
| author_facet | Lateef Olalekan Bello Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi Gideon Danso-Abbeam Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi Kehinde Olagunju Tahirou Abdoulaye Victor Manyong Zoumana Bamba Bola Amoke Awotide |
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| description | Poverty persists in many developing countries, including Nigeria, owing to inadequate infrastructure, unemployment, or poor working conditions, among other factors. Youth poverty and vulnerability to poverty have been identified to prevalent among the young population. Using an endogenous switching probit regression approach, in this study, we evaluated the impacts of youth participation in agribusiness programs (YIAPs) on poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria. Our findings revealed that some demographic and institutional factors significantly influence poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth. The impact estimates indicate that participation in an agribusiness program has a significant positive effect on poverty reduction among youth. Moreover, there would have been about a 28% reduction in exposure to future poverty for non-participants had they participated in a YIAP. Our results suggest that intervention programs, such as YIAPs, that focus on skill acquisition and youth empowerment should be strengthened and scaled-up in order to improve youth welfare and subsequently reduce/eradicate poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27933eade4934036b1963778f21791ab2023-11-23T09:40:56ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722022-05-0112573510.3390/agriculture12050735Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in NigeriaLateef Olalekan Bello0Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi1Gideon Danso-Abbeam2Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi3Kehinde Olagunju4Tahirou Abdoulaye5Victor Manyong6Zoumana Bamba7Bola Amoke Awotide8Discipline of Agricultural Economics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South AfricaDiscipline of Agricultural Economics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South AfricaDepartment of Agribusiness, University for Development Studies, Tamale P.O. Box TL 1350, GhanaInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Abuja 90021, NigeriaDepartment of Agri-food Economics and Trade, Poznan University of Life Sciences, 60-637 Poznan, PolandSocial Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Bamako 91094, MaliSocial Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dar es Salam 34441, TanzaniaInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Country Representative, Kinshasa 4163, CongoSocial Science and Agribusiness, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Bamako 91094, MaliPoverty persists in many developing countries, including Nigeria, owing to inadequate infrastructure, unemployment, or poor working conditions, among other factors. Youth poverty and vulnerability to poverty have been identified to prevalent among the young population. Using an endogenous switching probit regression approach, in this study, we evaluated the impacts of youth participation in agribusiness programs (YIAPs) on poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria. Our findings revealed that some demographic and institutional factors significantly influence poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth. The impact estimates indicate that participation in an agribusiness program has a significant positive effect on poverty reduction among youth. Moreover, there would have been about a 28% reduction in exposure to future poverty for non-participants had they participated in a YIAP. Our results suggest that intervention programs, such as YIAPs, that focus on skill acquisition and youth empowerment should be strengthened and scaled-up in order to improve youth welfare and subsequently reduce/eradicate poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/5/735povertyyouthagribusiness programendogenous switching probit regressionNigeria |
| spellingShingle | Lateef Olalekan Bello Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi Gideon Danso-Abbeam Adebayo Isaiah Ogunniyi Kehinde Olagunju Tahirou Abdoulaye Victor Manyong Zoumana Bamba Bola Amoke Awotide Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria Agriculture poverty youth agribusiness program endogenous switching probit regression Nigeria |
| title | Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria |
| title_full | Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria |
| title_short | Assessing the Impact of Youth-in-Agribusiness Program on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty in Nigeria |
| title_sort | assessing the impact of youth in agribusiness program on poverty and vulnerability to poverty in nigeria |
| topic | poverty youth agribusiness program endogenous switching probit regression Nigeria |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/12/5/735 |
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