Browsing by Author "Adekunle, Adedayo Olufemi"

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    Assessment of crop farmers' attitude to risk and management methods in Oyo State, Nigeria
    (Western Balkan Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2022) Akanbi, Sheu-Usman Oladipo; Adekunle, Adedayo Olufemi; Mukaila, Ridwan; Isola, Abiodun Johnson
    Agricultural sector faces series of risks which befall at different frequencies. This study examined the crop farmers’ attitude to risks and their management methods in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the risk attitude of farming households, and analyzed the risk management strategies adopted by farming households in the study area. A four-stage sampling method was adopted to elicit response from selected 150 farming households for this study. The dataset was analyzed with the use of descriptive and inferential statistics. Safety-First-Model (SFM) was employed to analyze the risk attitude among crop farmers. The result revealed that majority of the farming households head was male and married with the mean age of 42 years and a moderately large household size of five persons and inheritance was the prominent means of farmland acquisition. Descriptive statistics showed that high cost of labor input topped the ranking of the risk source in the study followed by high input prices. Lacks of extension advice, low crop prices, were also common. Risk management methods employed to mitigate risk by majority of the farm families was sale of assets followed by income diversification. The SFM result revealed that all the food crop farmers were intermediate risk averse.
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    Effects of deforestation on rural household income in Oyo state, Nigeria
    (Radovi Šumarskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Sarajevu, 2023) Akanbi, Sheu-Usman Oladipo; Cole, Olawale Oluwasegun; Adekunle, Adedayo Olufemi; Jatto, Kabir Adedayo; Alao, Bashir
    The study examined the effects of deforestation on rural household income in Oyo state, Nigeria. The specific objectives include; identification of the types of livelihood activities; identifying the causes of deforestation; and to determine the effects of deforestation on the household income. A total of one hundred and eighty (180) rural dwellers were interviewed in 2020. We collected the data through the use of questionnaires and focus group discussions analysed the data with descriptive statistics and ordinary least square regression (OLS). The result shows that the majority (85.5%) of the respondents were farmers. The livelihood activities employed by the rural households include the combination of farming with any of charcoal production and livestock rearing (50%); charcoal business (33%); the gathering of non-timber forest products (14%); and artisanal work respectively (3.3%). The major causes of deforestation were farm expansion (55%), charcoal use (20.6%), building construction (11.7%), and lumbering (3.9%). The regression analysis revealed that farm expansion, charcoal business, and lumbering were found to increase significantly the household income in the study area. The study thereby recommends the adoption of agroforestry for improved livelihoods and to boost household income, energy, food security and this will also reduce deforestation.