Oni Omobowale

University of Ibadan · Department of Agricultural Economics

Urban slum residents have access to a broad range of facilities of varying quality. The choices they make can significantly influence their health outcomes. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are a widely-used health economic methodology for understanding how individuals make trade-offs between attributes of goods or services when choosing between...

This study examined the influence of maternal autonomy on child nutrition in rural, Nigeria. The 2013 Nigerian Demography and Health Survey data were utilized. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, composite score analysis, and ordered probit regression. About 51% of the children were male with an average age of 22.55 ± 17.22 months. Alm...

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is paramount to the success of farming activities today in the face of the menace of climate change. This study therefore investigated the frequency of usage of CSA and the factors influencing its level of usage in the Northern agricultural zone of Sokoto State. A well-structured questionnaire was used for data colle...

An effective credit system is essential for agricultural value chain development. It facilitates fulfillment of venture potential through access to appropriate technology. There is little information on credit accessibility among vegetable marketers and other participants in the value chain such as the input suppliers, processors and transporters....

This study examines the relationship between household assets and demographics as well as adolescents’ time allocation to school attendance and helping in household chores. We found that overtime, patrimonial society has positively influenced girls in Nigeria by spending more time on school works. The study found that commitment to educational achi...

The study was conducted to address the issue of consumers' willingness to pay for inclusion of cassava flour in bread in Lagos State. The data were collected randomly from a sample of 300 respondents in the state through the use of a well structured questionnaire. The contingent valuation method was adopted to estimate both the mean willingness to...

Nigeria is the third largest producer of cocoa in Africa producing about 6% of the total World production. The objective of this study is to assess the competitiveness, comparative advantage and effect of government policies on cocoa production in Ondo State, Nigeria. The analysis was conducted for sole and intercropped cocoa production systems. Pr...

Plantain is one of the most important staple crops in Nigeria and has the potential to contribute to food security and economic development of the country. There is inadequate information on competitiveness, comparative advantage and effects of government policies on the commodity. The study therefore analyzed competitiveness and effects of governm...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use the capability approach to analyse the wellbeing of rural households in Nigeria and determine the factors that influence the wellbeing status reported. Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses multidimensional wellbeing of the households in the capability space using data in seven dimensions ob...

Poverty and vulnerability being observed as rural phenomenon in sub-Sahara African and that majority of the rural poor in Nigeria derive their livelihood from subsistence agriculture, are popular research findings across the country. However, the extent of effect of the interaction of agriculture as a livelihood with agro-ecological variation on po...

Poverty has been intractable because policies and programmes are based on static poverty analysis in Nigeria. There is the need for a forward looking approach (vulnerability to poverty) to be adopted in poverty analysis, hence this study. This study investigated the vulnerability to poverty across geopolitical zones in rural Nigeria, using the 2004...

This study examined consumer's willingness to pay for food safety attributes in bread in Lagos metropolis. It empirically analyzed the factors driving willingness to pay for improved bread and the effect of attributes on willingness to pay and mean willingness to pay for improved bread. The data for the study using a well-structured questionnaire c...

The Nigerian food insecurity situation is still described as appalling despite a number of efforts geared towards addressing the problem. Fundamental to the phenomenon of poverty and food insecurity in Nigeria at national, community and household levels are issues of livelihood and agro-ecological diversity. This study investigates the linkage...

Motivated by the recent global economic crisis, this paper simulated the impact of a rise in the price of imported food on agriculture and household poverty in Nigeria using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) class of decomposable poverty measures on the 2006 social accounting matrix (SAM) of Nige...

The study assessed the input use efficiency of cocoa farmers in Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 90 cocoa farmers from the state. Structured questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents. Empirical analysis revealed that cocoa production is profitable with average gross revenue, average gross margin...

This study described the food demand of rural households of Nigeria with a view to identifying its determinants and responsiveness to price and household food expenditure.The study made use of 121 rural households in Ondo state using a 3-stage random sampling technique.Demand for food groups in this study was estimated using Quadratic Almost Ideal...

The trend of deforestation in Nigeria and its attendant consequences has led to the need for a pragmatic solution to the alarming rate of deforestation. This paper, thus, explored a macroeconomic analysis of tropical deforestation in Nigeria. Specifically, the paper described the trend of forest stock and selected forest products in Nigeria in the...

Understanding relationships, opportunities and bottlenecks in a commodity value chain is crucial to the determination of the contribution of a commodity to economic development. The objective of the study was to Map Plantain Value Chain in order to identify the key players, their roles, value added along the chain as well as constraints. Personal I...

The Nigerian rural population is described by low productivity, little formal education and poverty. The need for more studies on the issue of wellbeing of rural population is hinged on the continued development of approaches that give better understanding of the phenomenon. This paper attempted to use Amartya Sen’s capability approach to assess mu...

There are several reasons (clinically and public health wise) to believe that the level of cleanliness adequately reflect the performance of service delivery actually received by the populace. This study extend the research of Gupta-Das on the analysis of health facility cleanliness by using the Principal-agent theory and the accountability framewo...

This study examined the relationship between social capital and household welfare. Primary data was collected from 300 households in the rural southwest of Nigeria. The age of respondents; sex, education, marital status, household size and farming status make a significant contribution to changes in household welfare. Also, the decision making inde...

Increased food production in Nigeria has over the years been attributed to area expansion while reports of shortened fallow period of farmlands are suggestive of shift towards intensification. The study examines the structure of land-use intensification in food crop production in Southwestern Nigeria towards determining its drivers and concordance...

This study examined the effects of social capital on household welfare in southwest, Nigeria. The data for the study were collected fro m 300 households in six local government areas (LGAs) using probability proportionate to size of the residence in the LGAs. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics, social capital indices and regression...

The study is aimed at isolating factors influencing choice of healthcare providers among farming and non-farming households. Primary data were collected from the farming and non-farming households' heads using questionnaires. The sample was selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. Patients in the study area were more inclined to seek curati...

This paper empirically analyzes the factors which determine the willingness to pay for iodine in salt. Ogun state is presently divided into four zones (Yewa, Abeokuta, Ikenne and Ijebu-Ode) by Ogun State Agricultural Development Programme (OGADEP) for agricultural information dissemination and administration. A multistage random sampling technique...

This study analyzes the production efficiency of farm households exhibiting significant non-farm earnings in Egbeda Local Government Area of Oyo State. The data for the study were collected from 120 farm households selected through multistage random sampling. Data envelope analysis (DEA), which reveals production inefficiencies, was used to estimat...

In the present study, we investigated the factors that affect yam market participation by smallholder yam farmers in Oyo North area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The basic Probit and Tobit econometric models were employed. The study identifies the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the smallholders, the volume of production, consumption, sal...

Poverty is a serious problem in Nigeria and the rural areas are the most affected ones. Recent literature emphasizes the multidimensional nature of poverty. This study analyzes multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the 2006 Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire (CWIQ) Survey data. Fuzzy set approach was used to assess the poverty profile of the...

This study assessed the extent of farming household vulnerability to risk in the Northern region of Oyo state. The multistage random sampling procedure was used in selecting 107 respondents from total sample frame of farmers supplied by the Agricultural Development Programme of Oyo state. The study employed the Ordinary Least Square Estimates analy...

This study is interested in determining factors infl uencing default in loan repayment among poultry farmers in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State. A total of 100 poultry farmers were randomly sampled from the study area. Probit model was employed to determine and analyse the factors infl uencing default in loan repayment in the study ar...

The study analysed consumer willingness to pay for safety labels in Nigeria by a case study of potassium bromate in bread” in Benin City, Edo State. It specifi cally investigates factors that promote willingness to pay for label among consumers of bread in Benin City, Edo State. Data used for the study were obtained through a well-structured questi...

Poverty in Nigeria is an overwhelmingly grave problem and has been on the increase for many decades, being endemic to rural areas where the main occupation is farming. In recent times, technological advancement-especially in agriculture-has been very instrumental in reducing the poverty problem through the development of genetically modified crop v...

Economic growth rate in Nigeria has improved in recent years; however the Human Development Index (HDI) rating for Nigeria is still low. This suggests that the growth is yet to be pro-poor. The child mortality is still relatively high in international comparison and the Government has put in place programmes to improve on this. The study attempts t...

This study examined the effects of technological changes on the demand for labour among cocoa farmers in the study area. Primary data was collected using structured questionnaire administered to a purposive sample of eighty cocoa farmers in Ogun state of Nigeria. The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics, Analysis of Variance (AN...

An analysis of child labour and health status in cocoa farming households was undertaken using descriptive analysis and logit regression model. A total sample of 60 household heads and 60 children used for cocoa farming were collected, 90% male and 10% female adult household heads responded while 57% male children and 43% female children were sampl...