Impact of the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme on the Poverty Status of Rural Households in Edo and Ondo States, Nigeria

Autor: Akinbode Wasiu Olalekan, Bamire Adebayo Simeon, Adesiyan Adewumi Titus, Olatidoye Muyiwa Sunday, Sofoluwe Nurudeen Afolabi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Contemporary Agriculture, Vol 69, Iss 3-4, Pp 102-109 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2466-4774
2020-0013
DOI: 10.2478/contagri-2020-0013
Popis: The purpose of this study is to examine socioeconomic factors influencing the participation of households in the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme and estimate the programme’s impact on the poverty status of rural households in Edo and Ondo States, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select three hundred and twenty respondents across CBNRM participating and non-participating households. Data were collected according to socioeconomic criteria such as the expenditure on food and non-food items and the CBNRM participation status of the respondents surveyed. The endogenous switching regression model was used as an analytical tool. The following factors were found to exert significant influence on the participation of households in the CBNRM programme: year of schooling (p
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