Lawrence Oparinde

Federal University of Technology, Akure | futa · Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

The study examined the factors influencing Households' choice of waste management strategies in Lagos State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. In the first stage, two states (Lagos state and Ogun state) were purposefully selected based on their well-organized waste management systems, relatively...

Variations in agroforestry technology adoption and level of income inequality across genders have not been given adequate attention in the literature. Hence, this study examined the effect of agroforestry technology adoption on income inequality among the gender of arable crop farmers in Southwest, Nigeria. A multistage selection process was employ...

There is a glaring shortage of studies on the impact of ICTs use on the adoption of agroforestry technologies and combined effects of ICTs use and agroforestry technologies’ adoption on farmers’ welfare. To fill the information gap, this study examined the impact of ICTs use on agroforestry technologies’ adoption and their heterogenous impacts on c...

his study examined the impact of off-farm work adoption on productivity-enhancing inputs (fertilizer and herbicide) in Southwest, Nigeria. Treatment effects model which addresses selection bias issue while considering observed and unobserved factors was used in the analysis of the data collected from sampled respondents. Endogenous Switching Regres...

There is a dearth of information on empirical studies on the impact of fish biodiversity on the welfare of farmers. Hence, it is important to investigate the role fish biodiversity, as a risk management measure, plays in the welfare status of aquaculture farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling procedure was employed in picking 192 res...

Nigeria is the second largest poultry industry in Africa, with its poultry industry the most commercialized livestock sub-sector. Despite its significance, the farmers still experience economic losses due to disease outbreaks. Hence, the application of standard Health Management Practices (HMPs) is very important, as these practices improve the wel...

limate poses challenges to the health and productivity of the populace. It is against this background that the study examined the effect of climate change and health on farmers' productivity in Southwest Nigeria. The research dwelt on cross-sectional data gathered through a structured questionnaire and a personal interview. A multistage sampling me...

Despite several studies on livelihood security, there is a dearth of studies on livelihood security in relation to gender among aquaculture fish farmers. Therefore, this study examined gender differentials in livelihood security among aquaculture fish farmers in southwest, Nigeria. This is important because of the relevance of aquaculture, liveliho...

Abstract This study was conducted to assess the effect of microcredit of Bank of Agriculture on poverty status and profitability of poultry egg producers in Oyo state, Nigeria. Primary data were collected through the administration of a well-structured questionnaire on the sampled poultry egg producers. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to...

This study examined the impact of climate change adaptation strategies on the welfare status of aquaculture fish farmers in Southwest, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used in the selection of 288 respondents. To account for selection bias due to both observable and unobservable factors where more than two options arise, the multinomial e...

This study examined the effects of land rights on investment decisions of farmers and determinants of land rights as well as the impact of land rights on farm productivity in Southwest Nigeria. Multistage sampling process was used in the selection of 320 respondents for the study. Two-stage conditional maximum likelihood (2SCML) approach of multiva...

Aims: An essential path to economic growth and expansion is commercialization of smallholder agriculture for the greatest number of emerging countries that depend on agriculture. Hence, the need to examine agricultural commercialization and food security nexus among maize farmers in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. This is...

The issue of credit constraints cannot be underestimated in aquaculture production as it influences output through the amount and combination of inputs used. Hence, this research work studied the impact of credit constraints on aquaculture production and risk exposure in Ondo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to choose 180...

The level of income inequality and structure-conduct of cocoa marketers were evaluated in Osun State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected with the aid of a well-structured questionnaire, while a multistage sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents for the study. Descriptive statistics, concentration ratio, Gini coefficient, index of di...

This study examined the impact of risk management strategies' adoption on fish output and food security among women aquaculture farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 90 respondents. Endogenous switching regression model and recursive bivariate probit model were employed to carry out the impact analysis. Th...

Poverty may lead to ill-health because it forces people to live in conditions that cause sickness, as a result of indecent shelter, lack of clean water or adequate sanitation. Poor health brings loss of labour hours, loss of money and it may cause death of the farmer. This study therefore evaluated food crop farmer’s health and poverty status ne...

Poverty may lead to ill-health because it forces people to live in conditions that cause sickness, as a result of indecent shelter, lack of clean water or adequate sanitation. Poor health brings loss of labour hours, loss of money and it may cause death of the farmer. This study therefore evaluated food crop farmer's health and poverty status nexus...

Access to credit has been identified as a crucial tool in increasing fish production in the developing countries like Nigeria. ACGSF was established for the purpose of boosting agricultural production (fish production inclusive). It is, therefore, imperative to study the Influence of Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund on fishery development...

This study examined gender differentials in accessing forest products as means of livelihood in Ondo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to identify socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents, main forest products assessable in the area, factors influencing level of participation of the respondents in forest products and problems enco...

Climate change is a phenomenon that is seen generally as a threat to agriculture, economy and livelihood of the rural farmers. Therefore, the need to study the rural farmers' perception of climate changes and its effects led to this study. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 60 rural farmers per each ecological zone in Ondo State ma...

The study employed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to describe the relationship that exists among economic growth, agriculture and health expenditures in Nigeria using time series data of 32 years' period (1982 – 2012). The result showed that there exists a long-run equilibrium relationship between economic growth and government expendi...

Nigeria is one of the largest producers of yam in the world and the country is endowed with the resources necessary for efficient yam production. As a food crop, the place of yam in the diet of the people in Southwestern Nigeria in general and Ondo State in particular cannot be overemphasized. This study investigated the performance and resource-us...

Fish is an important source of protein which is highly needed for human beings to experience necessary growth and development. This is the reason for the phenomenal rise in the consumption of fish in order to meet up with the body nutritional requirements. Therefore, marketing of this source of protein is inevitable as its distribution depends larg...

Smallholder farmers' performance of marketing functions in Nigeria is very low despite the fact that there are invaluable benefits associated with market orientation and favourable trends in agricultural commercialization. This is the motivation for this study, which analyses market participation by maize farmers in Ondo State, Nigeria. The objecti...