Oluwaseun Samuel Oduniyi

• Research Fellow at University of South Africa

Food supply and demand chains are susceptible to global shocks. Unstable and sudden food price hikes cause serious malnutrition problems and increase the number of food-insecure people, especially in developing countries. Using the FAO Food Price Index (FFPI), this study makes one of the first attempts to utilize monthly observations of the FFPI in...

Covid-19 has brought about significant changes in people's daily lives, leading to a slowdown in economic activities and the implementation of restrictions and lockdowns. As a result, there have been noticeable effects on the environment. In this study, we examine the impact of Covid-19 total cases on the monthly average of carbon monoxide emission...

Nigeria's agrarian community depends greatly on climatic elements that influence agricultural productivity. Investigating the relationship between climate change and maize yield in Ondo State, Nigeria, may produce empirical results that will improve and consolidate the understanding of climate change and its impacts on maize yield in the short and...

Over the years, landscape metrics and indigenous knowledge of the local community are yet to be employed to determine the patterns and drivers of mountainscape dynamics in Nigeria. This study quantified the mountainscape transformation (MT) and identified its drivers over the last two decades in Ado-Awaye Mountains, Nigeria. The potential mountain...

Climate change and soil degradation are the issues depleting the soil's ability to promote good yield. One of the ways to combat this is the practice of conservation agriculture (CA). This study was carried out to explore and investigate the impact of CA. Multinomial endogenous switching regression model and cross-sectional data were used to invest...

The slow and discontinuous adoption of agricultural technologies is one of the major threats to low agricultural productivity in developing countries. These actions highlight the challenges encountered in the adoption and the continuous use of sustainable land management practices in addition to the choices regarding the type used. The study invest...

Background The agricultural economy has little room for emerging farmers and there is no strong support system available for the small-scale farmers venturing in agro-processing. In this study, “access to agro-processing training” refers to any processing training rendered to small-scale crop farmers to equip them when venturing in to agro-processi...

Sheep production in South Africa has experienced some growth though very slow, and as such production cannot meet demand in the local market. This study aimed to determine the factor influencing the competitiveness of smallholder sheep farmers’ and constraints faced by sheep farmers in South Africa. A farm-level cross-sectional data of 217 smallhol...

In this article, we use the theoretical construction of Sen's Social Welfare Function to estimate the trends of welfare for different world regions. The empirical analysis is also complemented by investigating the long-run relationships and the role of income inequality on welfare dynamics. The results suggest heterogeneous relationships across reg...

The seamless, strong positive relationship across numerous nations, years, livestock, and crops on the welfare effects of commercialization highlights its importance in achieving the United Nations food security goals. This article examines the drivers of commercialization and heterogeneities existing at household levels. Here, the benefit of using...

In addition to altering drastically people's daily lives, COVID-19 has slowed down economic activities, imposed restrictions, and enforced lockdown, altogether causing significant effects on the environment. Studying the direction, magnitude, and durability of these effects carries a serious lesson for the whole world. Preliminarily evidence sugges...

Sustainable land management practices (SLMPs) are important for ensuring environmental protection, food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in a nation. The study employed a triple hurdle regression model to analyze the drivers influencing farmers’ awareness and adoption and level of adoption of SLMPs. The results show that farm inpu...

The participation of emerging farmers in high-value agricultural markets in South Africa cannot be overemphasized. It is one of the objectives of the government to assist emerging farmers with the necessary resources and programmes to enable them to meet the requirements and participate in high-value markets. The study investigated the impact of pa...

Sunflower production is an excellent choice for both local and national agribusiness with significant potential in smallholder farming systems due to low input costs, consistent yields, and a short planting window. However, farmers are faced with interrelated constraints in their sunflower production. This study was undertaken to examines the perce...

Different studies indicate that accessing a market is one of the frustrating challenges encountered in small-scale pig farming. The market within the pig farming sector is regarded as competitive, with small-scale farmers having to confront many constraints, which impede their bargaining position within the market. Although several studies on marke...

Agricultural information plays a vital role in adopting agricultural technology. The study explored if information acquisition is related to the adoption of sustainable land management practices (SLMP) and jointly decided in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Primary data were collected through face-to-face interviews, using a proportionate rando...

This study was carried out to investigate the impact of the adoption of sustainable land management practices (SLMP) on food security among smallholder farmers in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. A cross-sectional survey was conducted, where 250 maize farmers in the study area were interviewed. A household expenditure survey was used to measure t...

In addition to altering drastically people's daily lives, Covid 19 has slowed down economic activities, imposed restrictions, and enforced lockdown, altogether causing significant effects on the environment. Studying the direction, magnitude, and durability of these effects carries a serious lesson for the whole world. Preliminarily evidence sugges...

Over the past three decades, there have been tremendous developments relating to clean water and sanitation supply in sub-Saharan Africa. About 60% of households have access to clean water, while 40% have access to sanitation facilities. However, it is a different situation in rural communities where high concentrations of people are partaking in f...

Lack of adequate vegetable consumption may contribute to micronutrient deficiency especially in developing countries where low intake of nutrient-dense animal products is common. Despite growing evidence that vegetable consumption is of great importance, only about 25.6% South Africans consume sufficient vegetables per day. This research was carrie...

This study investigated the impact of Sustainable Land Management Practices (SLMP) on the smallholder maize farmer’s welfare in the Gert Sibande District in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Farmers’ welfare is paramount to agricultural development and rural vitalisation, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the study is to identify...

Background: There has been an increase in the use of clinical simulations as instructional tools in healthcare education. This is because of their role in ensuring patients’ safety and quality-care provision. Aim: This study investigated the paramedic students’ satisfaction and self-confidence in the clinical simulation of an emergency medical car...

Food supply and demand chains are highly sensitive to global shocks. Unstable and sudden food price hikes cause serious malnutrition problems and increase the number of food-insecure people, especially in developing countries. Using FAO Food Price Index (FFPI), this study makes one of the first attempts to utilize monthly observations of FFPI in a...

The study investigates the right size of cow in terms of both biological and economic efficiency under a typical production system in semi-arid South Africa. Cow size influences biological efficiency of individual animals, which influences herd composition and stock flow on a predetermined resource base. This in turn influences the economic efficie...

This research sought to explore the performance of agricultural export products on economic growth in Nigeria from 1960 to 2016. Secondary data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Annual Statistical Bulleting, the World Bank, and World Development Indicators were used. The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model...

COVID-19 is a contagious disease that originated from Wuhan City, China. Today, it has spread to over two hundred countries in the world leading to a total or partial lockdown in most countries, including South Africa. Consequently, the lockdown has negatively impacted every functional aspect of humanity, including education. While studies abound o...

The economies of many African countries are largely agrarian driven and there are increasing revelations that climate extreme events present a negative influence on biophysical, social and livelihood system of human sustenance. This research therefore investigated farmers’ adaptive capacity in the North West Province of South Africa. Cross-sectiona...

This study investigates the challenges to climate change adaptation techniques of citrus farmers in Limpopo province of South Africa. Interviews were conducted in 220 production units across over fifteen towns in the five district municipalities, namely: Capricorn, Mopani, Sekhukhune, Vhembeh, and Waterberg. Descriptive statistics such as frequenci...

The global relevance of food security has attracted a plethora of research, because it is a determinant of either the prosperity or poverty of any nation. Accordingly, food security is directly associated with the poverty in many developing countries of the world today. Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persis...

Zimbabwe has recently experienced a considerable shift towards the production of more cash crops, such as tobacco, at the expense of food crops. Although cash cropping has been associated with increased income, the question is whether the income gained from cash crops would be enough to provide the food needs of farming households. This research wa...

Keywords welfare economics and policy, food consumption and expenditure, smallholder farmer, Zimbabwe. The study was designed to analyse the food expenditure patterns of smallholder farming households. Income and expenditure data were collected from 281 randomly sampled farming households in Shamva District. Descriptive statistics (mean and frequen...

The practice of pasture-based livestock farming systems in South Africa is susceptible to climate-related events, low production output, income fluctuation, and by extension poor adaptive capacity. Understanding the importance and gravity of sustainable livestock farming through adaptive capacity has been identified as a tool to cope in the face of...

Rural livelihoods in most developing countries are threatened by climate-related risks such as drought, flood, heat waves, storms, and so on. Although farmers have adopted several adaptation strategies, they have proven less effective than hoped. Hence, index-based livestock insurance, an innovation that significantly assists farmers to acclimatise...

Adaptation to climate change varies according to regions, it could be effective in relation to people and their locations. Adaptation to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa is different from that of developed countries, as resources are limited. This study was conducted in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in North West Province of South A...

Numerous challenges currently experienced in the world today stemmed from global scientific collaborations that rely mainly on the ecosystem. Impact of climate variability threatens food security and production especially among the rural farming households. The study was conducted in North West Province of South Africa, to identify climate change a...

Purpose It is globally accepted that climate change is presently the greatest threat to the sustainability of human livelihood and biodiversity. Most farmers in the study area are highly aware of climate change and its consequences on the farming system; however, mitigation strategies are clearly lacking. Among the mitigation, mechanism to reduce t...

Agriculture still represents the main economic livelihood activity for the majority of rural households in sub-Saharan Africa where it has been noticed that livelihood diversity is predictable or a custom. Rural livelihood in Africa is assertively connected to agriculture and natural resource use. The rural livelihood in Southern African is largely...

Background: Climate change negatively impacted agricultural food production. Amidst the means of adjustment is the use of adaptation strategies to combat the detrimental effect. In order to promote zero hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and encourage sustainable agriculture, which were listed under the second goal of the Sustaina...

Determinants of market channel choice are the contributing issues that influence production and sales. Despite their significance, yet adequate research has not been carried out on it, particularly in the North West Province, South Africa. Consequently, this paper assessed the socio-economic profile and the determinants of the choices of market cha...

Climate change implication and rural livelihood capitals remain the major inextricable dimensions of sustainability in this twenty first century globally. As a result, the impact and outcome of climate change on rural livelihood capitals, including economic development cannot be overemphasized in Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality of the Nor...

Climate change and rural livelihood capitals remain the major inextricable dimensions of sustainability in this twenty-first century globally. It is known to be an important challenge facing food security status among African countries. Additionally, it is an indisputable fact that climate change and agriculture are intertwined. In view of this, cl...

This study was conducted in Nkanga Modiri Molema District Municipalities of North West Province of South Africa. The objective of the study was to determine the implication of climate change on livelihood (Household Food security) and determinants among the small and emerging small-scale maize farmers in the province. A total number of 346 question...

This study has assessed the welfare shocks and household food Insecurity in Ephraim Mogale and Greater Tubatse municipality of Sekhukhune district, Limpopo Province in South Africa. The aimed is to identifying shocks affecting livelihood at household level and also to determine the food insecurity status of households. Structured questionnaire was...

Thirty (30), twenty – three weeks old Isa brown pullets were used to investigate the egg weight and shell quality characteristics of laying hens fed with different levels of cocoa bean shell. The cocoa bean shell was used to replace maize at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% levels of inclusion. The replacement levels of 0% represent the control treatmen...

Climate change is possibly the greatest environmental challenge facing the world this century. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climate-sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. It was well documented by several scientists, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other experts that climate change thre...

Climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The impact of climate change is a reality and it cuts across all climate-sensitive sectors including the Agriculture sector. It is well documented by several scientists, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other experts that climate change threatens s...