Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria
The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secur...
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| author | Zainab Oyetunde-Usman Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju |
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| description | The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secure and food-insecure agricultural households. We further assessed the determinants of agricultural households’ inefficiencies within the stochastic frontier model and adopted a standard probit model to assess the determinants of households’ food security status. The results of our analyses revealed that; on the overall, the agricultural households had a mean technical efficiency of 52%, suggesting that agricultural households have the tendency of improving their technical efficiency by 48% using the available resource more efficiently. We found that households that are food-secure are more technically efficient than food in-secure households and this was significant at one-percent. Our results provide useful insights into the role of land size and number of assets as determinants of agricultural households’ food security and technical efficiency status. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-916bb43203ea48b4a8983410e94dea4f2022-12-22T02:57:26ZengMDPI AGEconomies2227-70992019-10-017410310.3390/economies7040103economies7040103Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in NigeriaZainab Oyetunde-Usman0Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju1Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UKAgricultural and Food Economics Branch, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, 18a Newforge Lane, Belfast BT9 5PX, UKThe challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secure and food-insecure agricultural households. We further assessed the determinants of agricultural households’ inefficiencies within the stochastic frontier model and adopted a standard probit model to assess the determinants of households’ food security status. The results of our analyses revealed that; on the overall, the agricultural households had a mean technical efficiency of 52%, suggesting that agricultural households have the tendency of improving their technical efficiency by 48% using the available resource more efficiently. We found that households that are food-secure are more technically efficient than food in-secure households and this was significant at one-percent. Our results provide useful insights into the role of land size and number of assets as determinants of agricultural households’ food security and technical efficiency status.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/4/103food securitytechnical efficiencynigeria |
| spellingShingle | Zainab Oyetunde-Usman Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria Economies food security technical efficiency nigeria |
| title | Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria |
| title_full | Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria |
| title_short | Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria |
| title_sort | determinants of food security and technical efficiency among agricultural households in nigeria |
| topic | food security technical efficiency nigeria |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/4/103 |
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