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Assessment of sustainable land management and food security among climatic shocks’ exposed to African farmers

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Title Assessment of sustainable land management and food security among climatic shocks’ exposed to African farmers
 
Creator Oyekale AS
 
Subject climate change
food security
agriculture
 
Description Climate change is one of the major challenges of agricultural production in many
developing countries. It complements some other development challenges like civil unrests,
environmental degradation and HIV&AIDS as one of the major obstacles to Africa’s socioeconomic
development. African policy makers have now realized the enormity of economic
consequences of climate change, and are coming up with mechanisms for reducing vulnerability
through adaptive mechanisms. These would reduce the problem of food insecurity since
agriculture is the dominant sector in many African countries. Similarly, these efforts are
justifiable given that high proportion of the labor force is found in agriculture and other related
activities. This paper analysed the impact of sustainable land use on monthly food shortages
among farmers in selected African countries. Data used for this study were collected by the
CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) as
baseline survey between late 2010 to early 2011. Five sites were randomly selected from East
Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), while in West Africa, five sites were each
selected from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. A total of 1398 farm households
were sampled from the two sub-regions using structured questionnaire. Data were analysed with
descriptive statistics and Negative Binomial (NB) regression model. The results showed that
majority of the farmers from Senegal had no formal education, while average numbers of months
when farm households were unable to meet households’ food needs were highest in Ethiopia
(6.55), Tanzania (5.36) and Ghana (4.44). The results from Negative binomial regression
showed that monthly food shortages significantly increased (p
 
Date 2016
2016-02-25T13:03:35Z
2016-02-25T13:03:35Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Oyekale AS. 2016. Assessment of sustainable land management and food security among climatic shocks’ exposed to African farmers. The Journal of Developing Areas 50(1):319-332.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/71147
https://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2016.0017
 
Language en
 
Rights Limited Access
 
Format p. 319-332
 
Publisher Project Muse