DETERMINANTS OF FOOD SECURITY STATUS AMONG RURAL FARM HOUSEHOLDS IN NORTH-WESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

This study was carried out to examine the determinants of  food security status among rural Farm households in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Interview guides were employed to elicit information from randomly selected 180 respondents from 12 agricultural cells (villages) from two agricultural zones of Kaduna State. The result of the logistic regression model shows the factors that determine the food security status of the respondents in the study area. It was revealed that four out of the seven variables included in the model were significant. The determinants of food security in the study area were age, extension contact, source of labour and per capita income of the respondents. The result of marginal effect shows that the probability of food security among the farm households is more responsive to a change in age than to extension contact, source of labour and per capita income.

Keywords: Rural Farm households, Food security, Agricultural cells, Marginal effect.