Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria
Agricultural cooperatives are frequently considered an essential framework that might help smallholder farmers overcome certain obstacles. This study investigated the determinants of agricultural cooperative membership and its impact on the poverty status of smallholder farming households in Nigeria...
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| author | Ayodeji Damilola Kehinde Taiwo Fausiyat Adesiyan Sheriff Oluwasola Hassan Ife Gideon Familusi |
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| description | Agricultural cooperatives are frequently considered an essential framework that might help smallholder farmers overcome certain obstacles. This study investigated the determinants of agricultural cooperative membership and its impact on the poverty status of smallholder farming households in Nigeria. Primary data were gathered from 240 smallholder farming households using a multistage sampling procedure. The Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (FGT) Index and the Endogenous Switching Probit Regression Model (ESPM) were used to analyze the data. The study concluded that most rural households were male (86 %), small scale, and at the prime of their productive age (57 years). The result further revealed that most (57.5 %) of the respondents are members of agricultural cooperatives. The results of the FGT poverty measure also indicate that the majority (67 %) of the smallholder farming households were poor. The result of the ESPM revealed that gender, years of education, land ownership, household size, years of farming experience, access to credit, and asset ownership significantly influence the membership of smallholder farmers in agricultural cooperatives. The second stage of the ESPM revealed that gender, education, land ownership, household size, years of farming experience, access to credit, asset ownership, and membership in other forms of cooperatives significantly affect poverty status among the agricultural cooperative members. Meanwhile, among non-members of agricultural cooperatives, variables such as gender, years of education, land ownership, farm size, access to credit, membership in other forms of cooperatives, and asset ownership significantly affect the poverty status of smallholder farmers. These findings reveal that there is a statistically significant relationship between the poverty status of smallholder farming households and their membership in agricultural cooperatives. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-da4fcd88c5784fab9c7bfa938d760b0a2025-08-20T03:45:14ZengElsevierSustainable Futures2666-18882025-06-01910039910.1016/j.sftr.2024.100399Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in NigeriaAyodeji Damilola Kehinde0Taiwo Fausiyat Adesiyan1Sheriff Oluwasola Hassan2Ife Gideon Familusi3Department of Agricultural Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Nigeria; Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa; Corresponding author.Department of Agricultural Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, NigeriaDepartment of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United StatesKentucky State University, 400 E Main Street, Frankfort, KY 40601Agricultural cooperatives are frequently considered an essential framework that might help smallholder farmers overcome certain obstacles. This study investigated the determinants of agricultural cooperative membership and its impact on the poverty status of smallholder farming households in Nigeria. Primary data were gathered from 240 smallholder farming households using a multistage sampling procedure. The Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (FGT) Index and the Endogenous Switching Probit Regression Model (ESPM) were used to analyze the data. The study concluded that most rural households were male (86 %), small scale, and at the prime of their productive age (57 years). The result further revealed that most (57.5 %) of the respondents are members of agricultural cooperatives. The results of the FGT poverty measure also indicate that the majority (67 %) of the smallholder farming households were poor. The result of the ESPM revealed that gender, years of education, land ownership, household size, years of farming experience, access to credit, and asset ownership significantly influence the membership of smallholder farmers in agricultural cooperatives. The second stage of the ESPM revealed that gender, education, land ownership, household size, years of farming experience, access to credit, asset ownership, and membership in other forms of cooperatives significantly affect poverty status among the agricultural cooperative members. Meanwhile, among non-members of agricultural cooperatives, variables such as gender, years of education, land ownership, farm size, access to credit, membership in other forms of cooperatives, and asset ownership significantly affect the poverty status of smallholder farmers. These findings reveal that there is a statistically significant relationship between the poverty status of smallholder farming households and their membership in agricultural cooperatives.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188824002478Agricultural cooperativesMembershipPoverty statusSmallholder farming householdsEndogenous switching probit regression model |
| spellingShingle | Ayodeji Damilola Kehinde Taiwo Fausiyat Adesiyan Sheriff Oluwasola Hassan Ife Gideon Familusi Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria Sustainable Futures Agricultural cooperatives Membership Poverty status Smallholder farming households Endogenous switching probit regression model |
| title | Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria |
| title_full | Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria |
| title_short | Leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in Nigeria |
| title_sort | leveraging on membership in agricultural cooperatives to alleviate abject poverty among smallholder farming households in nigeria |
| topic | Agricultural cooperatives Membership Poverty status Smallholder farming households Endogenous switching probit regression model |
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