50 research outputs found
The E-FooD Dataset and Food Security Simulators for Kenya and Nigeria: Innovative Tools to Support National Policies and Strategies
No full textRecent global food price spikes and household income losses pose significant challenges to people’s food security and diets, raising important questions for governments and international organizations about how best to support households. The new Income and Price Elasticities of Food Demand (E-FooD) dataset [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OXZ0H6] and Food Security Simulators (FSS) provide rigorous, yet easy-to-use tools for forward-looking evaluations of direct, household-level outcomes of economic crisis and policy responses. This webinar, organized by the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS), introduces the E-FooD dataset and FSS for Kenya [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NS1A7V] and Nigeria [https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WWMN6H], showcases their applications, and discusses the role that such tools can play in policymaking.
Welcome Remarks
Clemens Breisinger, Lead, CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS) and Country Program Leader, Kenya, IFPRI
The E-FooD Dataset
Olivier Ecker, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
Food Security Simulators for Kenya and Nigeria
Andrew Comstock, Senior Research Analyst, IFPRI
Panel Discussion
Alan Rennison, Senior Program Officer, Agricultural Development, Global Growth & Opportunity, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Utz Pape, Lead Economist, The World Bank, Abuja Dorah Momanyi, Young Professional (YP) and Winner of FSS Blog Competition; KIPPRA Kenya Temitayo Adeyemo, Agricultural Economist, Food systems research, Policy research, AWARD-GRASP fellow, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Closing Remarks
Yumna Kassim, Program Manager, IFPRI
Moderator
Yumna Kassim, Program Manager, IFPR
The 4th Industrial Revolution: What Role Does Infrastructure Play in Livelihood Choices and Outcomes of Agrarian Households?
No full textBuilding resilience capacity: what matters for the Nigerian agricultural sector?
No full textAgricultural systems are greatly affected by shocks; which impact on the production capacity. The extent to which these shocks affect production is however linked to the resilience of that system. Consequently, resilience capacities may change over time; and differ among the actor characteristics. The study examined the dimensions and level of resilience in the Nigerian agricultural sector; as well as the factors that drive resilience using data was obtained from the last two waves of the Nigerian Living Standards Surveys Measure /Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS/ISA)-the 2015/2016 (wave 3) and 2018/2019 (wave 4). Three dimensions of agricultural systems resilience, viz Adaptive Capacity, Assets and Access to basic services/Safety nets were examined. The average resilience capacity across all dimensions was very low in the periods under study, given at 0.109 and 0.143 in 2015 and 2018, respectively. Resilience capacity dropped for female headed households between 2015 and 2018. However, while asset ownership contributed most to total resilience of the Nigerian agricultural system in both periods; adaptive capacity was more critical for females. The drivers of resilience capacity were identified as age, sex, household size, farm- size and education. Therefore, providing opportunities for agricultural actors to improve resilience capacity; especially to own physical and agricultural assets is key to building a resilient agricultural system. Building and sustaining agricultural resilience will also depend on empowering the actors through both formal and informal education and structured training programs
A Functioning Approach to Well Being Analysis in Rural Nigeria
No full textThe Nigerian rural population is described by low productivity, little formal education and poverty. The need for more studies on the issue of wellbeing of rural population is hinged on the continued development of approaches that give better understanding of the phenomenon. This paper attempted to use Amartya Sen’s capability approach to assess multidimensional well being in rural Nigeria in six functioning dimensions obtained from the Nigerian Core Welfare Indices Survey using the fuzzy set theory. A binary logistic regression was also carried out to isolate the factors that determine the attainment of a pre determined level of well being after computation with the fuzzy set analysis. The results showed that rural Nigeria is an agrarian society; the functioning with the highest level of achievement out of the six dimensions studied was Housing, while asset ownership/income was the least achieved dimension in rural Nigeria. Results further revealed that belonging to female headed households, increasing age and being employed in the private (formal) sector as well as having some form of post secondary education enhances well being while being employed within the agricultural sector significantly reduced the well being of rural households in Nigeria
Does government or private support matter during crises? Panel data evidence from household response during the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions
No full textSocial protection policies are critical public policy measures to reduce livelihood vulnerability and enhance resilience amidst shocks. In this study, we exploit nationally representative panel data from Nigeria, the National Longitudinal Phone Survey (NLPS) on COVID-19, to assess the heterogeneous impact of different sources of support on households’ response to lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We employed a Correlated random effect (CRE) model with cluster-robust standard errors for binary outcomes to examine the impacts of government support, remittance and private rental income on the probability of stopping work following the lockdown restrictions across different employment sectors - agricultural, informal and formal. We find mixed results across the three support sources and employment categories. Chiefly, government support and private rental income are positively associated with the probability of stopping work in the agricultural sector. However, these effects are negative and significant if working in the informal sector. Remittance appears not to play a significant role if working in the informal and formal sectors but has a significant negative association among households working in the agricultural sector. We also found heterogeneous effects of these sources of support depending on whether the households are in rural or urban areas. Our findings have important implications for social protection policies that target building resilience amidst shocks and risks to household livelihoods
Value Addition and Productivity Differentials in the Nigerian Cassava System
No full textThere is an increasing need to improve value addition in order to get maximum utility from agricultural systems. Using a retrospective panel data from 482 cassava farmers covering the years 2015–2017, this study examined the effect of value addition on productivity of farmers in the cassava system in Nigeria. We analysed a non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis to examine productivity across cassava production systems over the three year period. We also examined the impact of value addition on productivity using an endogenous switching regression to account for unobservables that determine the decision to add value and productivity of the farmers. The study found that cost and revenue outlays increased with value addition. Cassava farmers in general operated below the efficiency frontier, with total productivity declining over the 2015–2017 period. However, higher value addition farmers had better efficiency and non-reducing productivity in the periods studied. We found evidence of selection bias in the decision to add value and productivity of the farmers. The conditional and unconditional outcome estimates revealed positive gains in productivity with value addition, confirming the hypothesis that value addition increases farming households’ productivity. We recommend that essential services such as extension services, agricultural training, and ease of enterprise registration that drive agricultural value addition be made available to farmers
Estimating the Incidence of Water Related Diseases: the case of Neglected Tropical Diseases in Rural Nigeria
No full textIncreasing fruit and vegetable intake on low-income population in Vietnam and Nigeria through food systems innovations - Nigeria Market Level Assessment Report
No full textUsing retailer sample from two market (180 retailers) and two neighborhood (87 retailers) locations, this Market Level Assessment (MLA) reveals overlaps and parallels in retailer characteristics, business modules as well as returns on investment. The MLA was carried out across four fruit and vegetable groups peculiar to the Nigerian environment namely Dark Green Leafy Vegetables (DGLV), Vitamin A Rich Fruits (VARF), Other Fruits (OF) and Other vegetables (OV)
TREATMENT OF OIL SPILLS WITH NATURAL SORBENTS: A REVIEW
No full textAbstract: One of the most available high-energy-density fuels is fossil oils. As a result, people from every corner of the globe have sought fossil oils. They are usually sourced away from internationally recognized sites. Therefore, long-distance transport is required during which oil leakages become a problem. Oil spills and chemical leaks occur regularly as oil production and marine traffic expand. The release of effluents from the oil and gas industry has posed a severe environmental problem as its disposal has not been effectively curbed. Resolutions have been made and are still being made to solve the problem. With this, works from several researchers have shown the feasibility and working progress of applying separation techniques to obtain valuable products from the effluents. One of the areas that have been majorly studied is the adsorption of oil using inorganic adsorbents. Noting that most of the inorganic adsorbents are expensive, the use of agricultural biomass as precursors for adsorbents is now being considered, as they are relatively cheaper means. This review reports the impact of oil spills on the environment and highlighted the remediation of oil spills with organic adsorbents.
Keywords: Environment; Fossil oil; natural adsorbents; oil spill; water treatment.
Title: TREATMENT OF OIL SPILLS WITH NATURAL SORBENTS: A REVIEW
Author: Olayemi Abosede Odunlami, Ebubechukwu Olive Odiakaose, Isaac Alfa Owoicho, Temitayo Elizabeth oladimeji, Francis Boluwaji Elehinafe
International Journal of Recent Research in Physics and Chemical Sciences (IJRRPCS)
ISSN 2350-1030
Vol. 9, Issue 1, April 2022 - September 2022
Page No: 16-25
Paper Publications
Website: www.paperpublications.org
Published Date: 27-May-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6586925
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