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Market participation, household food security, and income: The case of cowpea producers in northern Nigeria

This article evaluates the impact of cowpea market participation on household food security and income in northern Nigeria. Using household survey data from a representative sample of over 1,500 farm households and applying a combination of instrumental variable techniques and dose–response function...

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Autores principales: Manda, Julius, Alene, Arega D., Tufa, Adane Hirpa, Feleke, Shiferaw, Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Omoigui, Lucky O., Manyong, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32999717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fes3.211
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author Manda, Julius
Alene, Arega D.
Tufa, Adane Hirpa
Feleke, Shiferaw
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Omoigui, Lucky O.
Manyong, Victor
author_facet Manda, Julius
Alene, Arega D.
Tufa, Adane Hirpa
Feleke, Shiferaw
Abdoulaye, Tahirou
Omoigui, Lucky O.
Manyong, Victor
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description This article evaluates the impact of cowpea market participation on household food security and income in northern Nigeria. Using household survey data from a representative sample of over 1,500 farm households and applying a combination of instrumental variable techniques and dose–response functions, we found that cowpea market participation had a statistically significant positive impact on household food security and income. Cowpea market participation increased food expenditure by 1.6% and household income by 0.7% with a 10 unit increase in the quantity of cowpea sold. These results underscore the importance of cowpea market participation for household food security and income improvement. We also found that selling cowpea to rural and urban traders significantly increased household income, food expenditure, and food security. Results show that selling cowpea to rural and urban traders increased household income by 17% and 13%, respectively. The results point to the need for an enabling policy environment and public infrastructure to enhance market participation of farmers and traders. Public infrastructure investments in the form of feeder road construction and maintenance in the distant villages are encouraged, which in the long run can translate into improved cowpea productivity and welfare of smallholder farmers.
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spelling pubmed-75077802020-09-28 Market participation, household food security, and income: The case of cowpea producers in northern Nigeria Manda, Julius Alene, Arega D. Tufa, Adane Hirpa Feleke, Shiferaw Abdoulaye, Tahirou Omoigui, Lucky O. Manyong, Victor Food Energy Secur Original Research This article evaluates the impact of cowpea market participation on household food security and income in northern Nigeria. Using household survey data from a representative sample of over 1,500 farm households and applying a combination of instrumental variable techniques and dose–response functions, we found that cowpea market participation had a statistically significant positive impact on household food security and income. Cowpea market participation increased food expenditure by 1.6% and household income by 0.7% with a 10 unit increase in the quantity of cowpea sold. These results underscore the importance of cowpea market participation for household food security and income improvement. We also found that selling cowpea to rural and urban traders significantly increased household income, food expenditure, and food security. Results show that selling cowpea to rural and urban traders increased household income by 17% and 13%, respectively. The results point to the need for an enabling policy environment and public infrastructure to enhance market participation of farmers and traders. Public infrastructure investments in the form of feeder road construction and maintenance in the distant villages are encouraged, which in the long run can translate into improved cowpea productivity and welfare of smallholder farmers. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-02 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7507780/ /pubmed/32999717 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fes3.211 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Applied Biologists. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Manyong, Victor
Market participation, household food security, and income: The case of cowpea producers in northern Nigeria
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title_short Market participation, household food security, and income: The case of cowpea producers in northern Nigeria
title_sort market participation, household food security, and income: the case of cowpea producers in northern nigeria
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32999717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fes3.211
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