Poverty incidence among smallholder farmers in the amathole district municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/472681 , vital:77562 , DOI: 10.31901/24566608.2014/46.03.02
- Description: Strategies aimed at poverty alleviation need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and are amenable to modification by policy. The study employed a household welfare function, approximated by household expenditure per adult equivalent to offer explanation for the incidence of poverty and its correlates. Data were collected from a household level survey of 150 smallholder farmers in the Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (FGT) poverty index was used to analyse the extent and severity of poverty and the results revealed that about 44 percent of the sampled households live below poverty line with average poverty gap of 0.097, while results from the Tobit regression model showed that household head’s gender, age, education, households’ dependency ratio, occupation, security of land rights, credit availability, social capital and assets ownership are important determinants of smallholder farmers’ poverty. Implications for smallholder farmers’ poverty reduction were discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2014
Smallholder farmers’ access to credit in the Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69351 , vital:29503 , https://jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2014121946870/814
- Description: Provision of credit has being identified as an important instrument for improving the welfare of smallholder farmers directly and for enhancing productive capacity through financing investment by the farmers in their human and physical capital. This study investigated the individual and household characteristics that influence credit market access in Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, using a cross sectional data from smallholder farmers’ household survey. The aim is to provide a better understanding of the households’ level socio-economic characteristics, not only because they influence household’s demand for credit but also due to the fact that potential lenders are most likely to base their assessment of borrowers’ creditworthiness on such characteristics. The results of the logistic regression suggest that credit market access was significantly influenced by variables such as gender, education, households’ income, value of assets, savings, dependency ratio, repayment capacity and social capital. Implications for rural credit delivery are discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2014
The Impact of contaminated fertilizer on pineapple growers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Authors: Hill, Gary , Fraser, Gavin C G , Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473055 , vital:77602 , https://doi.org/10.5897/AJAR11.1023
- Description: A framework has been established to determine the economic impact of contaminated fertilizer on pineapple growers in the Eastern Cape. Farmers in the region unwittingly made use of contaminated fertilizer which infected pineapples with higher than permissible levels of the heavy metal toxin, cadmium. The fruit was deemed unfit for use, translating into large financial losses for growers and influencing all participants in the industry. The pineapple trade was devastated. Pineapple production costs and revenues are adapted from previous studies as much of the necessary data was sub judice because of the pending legal action. Despite the problems with data, it was established that the farming operations were severely compromised because of the contamination.
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- Date Issued: 2012
Vulnerability and poverty dynamics in rural areas of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473079 , vital:77604 , https://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/74661
- Description: If the aim of studying poverty is not only improving the well-being of households who are currently poor, but also preventing people from becoming poor in the future, a new forward looking perspective must be adopted. This study analyses determinants of household poverty dynamics in rural areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa using a panel dataset on a representative sample of 300 rural households in the Amathole District Municipality. The result of the study shows a significant flow in and out of poverty, which is a sign of vulnerability. While 63% of the sampled households are poor (ex post), while 48% are vulnerable to becoming poor (ex ante) in future. The result of the probit model indicates that age, level of education and household heads’ occupation, dependency ratio, remittance/diversified income base, exposure to idiosyncratic risks and access to credit are statistically significant in explaining households’ vulnerability to poverty. Implications for policy are discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Determinants of household poverty dynamics in rural regions of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/471254 , vital:77434 , ISBN , https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/97078/?v=pdf
- Description: Poverty has always been studied in a world of certainty. However, if the aim of studying poverty is not only improving the well-being of households who are currently poor, but also preventing people from becoming poor in the future, a new forward looking perspective must be adopted. For thinking about appropriate forward-looking anti-poverty interventions (i.e. interventions that aim to prevent or reduce future poverty rather than alleviate current poverty), the critical need then is to go beyond a cataloging of who is currently poor and who is not, to an assessment of households’ vulnerability to poverty. This study analyses a panel dataset on a representative sample of 150 rural households interviewed in 2007 and 2008 in the Amathole District Municipality of the Eastern Cape Province to empirical assess the dynamics of poverty and estimate the determinants of households’ vulnerability to poverty. The result of the study indicates that the number of vulnerable households is significantly larger than for the currently poor households; the vulnerability index was found to be 0,62 compared to 0,56 headcount index in 2008. This implies that while 56 percent of the sampled households are poor (ex post) in 2008, 62 percent are vulnerable to becoming poor (ex ante) in future. The result of the Probit model shows that the age, level of education and occupation of the household head, dependency ratio, exposure to idiosyncratic risks and access to credit are statistically significant in explaining a households’ vulnerability to poverty.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Resource use efficiency in sole sorghum production in three villages of Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Chikwendu, D O , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/470989 , vital:77406 , https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR
- Description: In explaining the differences in the efficiency of farms, it is necessary to look into the use of resources to show the close links existing between the performance attained from resources on individual farms and efficient allocation of resources between farms of different sizes. This study estimates the productivity of farm resources on small and large scale farms in three villages of Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Production data were collected using a structure questionnaire from a representative sample of 78 sorghum farmers. The study used the double log production function to determine the relationship between farm resources and the efficiency of resource use. Empirical results showed that seed, fertilizer and labour inputs are statistically significant in explaining the variation in sorghum output in the study area. However the estimates of the ratio of the marginal value productivities (MVP) and marginal factor cost (MFC), point clearly to the non optimal combination of inputs among the farmers, it showed that the farm resources were inefficiently utilized for sole sorghum production by small and large scale farmers, hence, the need for resource adjustment. Implications for regional and national food policies are discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Profitability in sorghum production in three villages of Kaduna State, Nigeria
- Authors: Baiyegunhi, Lloyd J S , Fraser, Gavin C G
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/472720 , vital:77566
- Description: Poverty in Nigeria is overwhelmingly a rural problem. In 1985, 86.6 percent of those living below poverty line of US $1 per day were in the agricultural sector. This figure dropped to 66 per cent in 1992. However, of the total population of poor people in 1992, 10 million were living in the rural areas and are engaged in farming. Nigerian small-scale farmers are characterized by the use of unimproved inputs and traditional production tools that are capable of generating only very small incomes. This low income of the farmers leads to vicious cycle of poverty with low levels of savings and investments, which in turn leads to low productivity and low income. In explaining the poverty status of farmers, it is necessary to look into the profitability of their farm enterprise to show the close links existing between productivity and farm income. This study attempts to estimate the profitability of sole sorghum production on small and large scale farms, it uses the gross margin analysis to determine the farm income on small and large scale farms. Empirical results indicate that the farmers are making profits, given the benefits relative to costs involved in sorghum production on both the small and large scale farms. To fully tap the potential of increase productivity and farm income, the study surmises that expanded access to improved technologies on sorghum production should be extended to the farmers through extension services.
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- Date Issued: 2009