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Is the participation in the non-farm income generating activities help smooth food consumption? Evidence from rural Nigeria


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Jabo, Mohammad Sani Muhammad and Ismail, Mohd Mansor and Abdullah, Amin Mahir and Shamsudin, Mad Nasir (2014) Is the participation in the non-farm income generating activities help smooth food consumption? Evidence from rural Nigeria. In: Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences Conference 2014, 25-26 Aug. 2014, Grand Season Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. .

Abstract

More than 40 percent of the total income of households in rural Nigeria is from non-farm activities. However, there has been no much empirical work to analyse whether the participation in these activities reduces food insecurity and smooth food consumption or not. This paper examines the impact of non-farm diversification on food consumption expenditure using a national representative sample of 3624 rural households from the General Household-panel Survey data. The propensity score matching technique was employed in the analysis to take care of selection bias. We find that the on the average food consumption expenditure of the non-participating households in NFIGA is less than participating households. Overall, the average increase in food expenditure due to diversification into non-farm income generating activities range between ₦1571.52 to ₦11654.07.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Agriculture
Publisher: Australian Academy of Business and Social Sciences
Keywords: Food consumption expenditure; Propensity score matching; Non-farm income generating activities; Rural household
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2017 04:07
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2017 04:07
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51578
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