Gender issues have taken a global dimension in the recent times especially in Nigeria. Women are increasingly being involved in agricultural food value chain which contributes to economic development. Policy agenda has for decades given priority to the production sphere, where men generally predominate, and has largely neglected processing and marketing activities, where women often play a key role. The paper draws on available empirical literature evidence for the study. Aggregate data shows...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATION IIIAPPROVAL VDEDICATIONS ViACKNOWLEDGEMENT viiLIST OF ACRONYNIMS viiiABSTRACT ixCHAPTER ONE 11.0 INTRODUCTION 11.1 BAcKGROuND TO THE STUDY 11.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 31.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 41.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 41.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 4CHAPTER TWO 52.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 52.1 VALUES AND NATURAL FUNCTIONS OF WETLANDS 52.1.1 Major economic uses 62.1.2 Ecological Functions 72.1.3 Socio~Economic Functions 82.1.4 How valuable are Uganda~ wetlands? 92.2 HuMAN ...
Abstract/Overview Reports show that approximately 1.01 million children aged 5-17 years are engaged in child labour, with 90% in the rural areas, working in agriculture, domestic work, informal sector, mining and fisheries. Although existing literature mainly talks of boys engaged in fishing, information concerning girl child involvement in fish processing is scarce. However, primary schools around Wagusu Beach experience high girl child school drop-out as well as irregular attendance and it...
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Poverty has been the hardest challenge facing human life from time immemorial. It has contributed to low social-economic states in society and has brought absent difficult circumstances 1:hat face learners today. It has negatively affected all people regardless of age, culture, race, religion, and other factors. An overview of some facts about poverty in the world of . Africa the black Americans suffered untold miseries ranging from disease...
Presently, Nigeria is among the nations that are technically unable to meet their food supply needs from rain-fed production at a low level of inputs and appear likely to remain so even at intermediate levels of inputs at some point’s time between 2000 and 2025 (FAO 2002). For the rural areas of semi-arid Northern Nigeria, which experiences significant climatic and anthropogenic changes that have exacerbated food insecurity in the region, floodplain agriculture is critical to the survival...
ABSTRACT This study on Land Use Consolidation and Socio-Economic Livelihoods of Farmers carried out in Cyuve Sector, Musanze District sought to analyse the contribution of Land Use Consolidation towards the socio-economic livelihoods of farmers in Rwanda The study was guided by the following specific objectives: to assess the crops grown before and after land use consolidation; to determine the yield and profitability of crops grown before and after land use consolidation; to identity the pro...
ABSTRACT From a small district capital in the early 1980s, Wa the capital of the Upper West Region has grown to the status of a municipality. The phenomenal urban growth and its accompanying expansion have had a profound effect on the peri-urban communities. These communities have had their livelihood activities negatively affected but the extent to which the urban expansion has affected agricultural output and peri urban farmers’ coping strategies has not attracted much academic attention...
ABSTRACT The research on “The Forms and Effects of Soil Degradation on Agricultural Land” was calTied out in Bor town Jonglei State, south Sudan. The major areas of the investigation were discussed to known the causes of soil degradation and adverse impacts on farming land and what solutions to be put in place to minimize the occurrence of soil degradation. Methods like photography, interviews, questionnaires, and observation were used for effective and efficient data collection. At the p...
ABSTRACT Coastal ecosystems sustain local and national fisheries livelihoods through a range of ecosystem services (ES) they provide. Five of these coastal ecosystems, located in two communities within the Greater Cape Three Points (GCTP) area—Princess Town (PT) and Cape Three Points (C3P)—were assessed to develop a scheme for establishing Marine Protected Area (MPA). To conduct an integrated assessment, the study employed the Community Participatory Mapping and Assessment of ecosystems a...
ABSTRACT Climate change and variability greatly affect many human activities particularly agriculture. Various adaptation strategies to climate variability have been used over the years with little attention to the vital role played by seasonal climate forecast (SCF) in providing information on the expected climatic conditions to adapt to. Despite dissemination of SCF information to varied users by Kenya Meteorological services (KMS) before rain seasons, it still remains unclear whether the ...
ABSTRACT The researchers, researched on the project titled the Role of Banks in Financing Agricultural Cooperative societies in Enugu State (A Case Study of Union Bank Plc Enugu Zonal Office). In pursuance of this research, the researchers divided the work into five chapters, chapter one, dealt with the introduction of the study, background of the study etc. Among the objectives includes. To determine what can be done to enhance agricultural cooperatives. To appraise the contribution of Un...
ABSTRACT The government of Ghana introduced the Youth-in-Agriculture Programme (YiAP) in 2009 as one of the modules of the National Youth Employment Programme. The Government through the YiAP motivates the youth to accept agriculture as their main occupation by providing the necessary inputs and services (incentives) that the youth themselves under their present condition cannot provide. This study is an analysis of determinants of participation in the YiAP in three districts in the Eastern R...
ABSTRACT The evidence over a negative relationship between farm size and productivity in large global literature is largely dependent on a narrow range of farm sizes excluding medium and large scale farms. This study was carried out to determine the relationship between farm size and agricultural productivity over a wider range of farm sizes across maize cropping systems in maize producing districts of Tanzania Mainland. Specifically, the study attempts to: (i) estimate the farmers‟ total f...
Abstract This research focuses on the impact of oil and non-oil exports on Nigeria’s economy from 1981 to 2012. Data on gross domestic product, oil export and non-oil export were used. The ordinary least square (OLS) was used to estimate the parameters. The research results from econometrics analysis revealed that oil and non-oil exports have significant impact on Nigeria’s economy. The unit root test was conducted using the Augmented Dickey- Fuller and Phillip Perron unit...
ABSTRACT The broad objective of this study was to analyse sustainable agricultural resource use in Nigeria using the Ecological Footprint Approach. The specific objectives included to; estimate the global emergy and emergy density, determine the ecological footprint per capita, analyse the per capita bio-capacity, and ascertain the level of agricultural resource use, sustainability status and resource substitution in Nigeria. The total land area, population and thematic data of the country ...