Determinants of food security and technical efficiency among agricultural households in Nigeria

The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secur...

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Published in:Economies 2019-12, Vol.7 (4), p.1-13
Main Authors: Oyetunde-Usman, Zainab, Olagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi
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Agriculture
Cassava
Corn
Crops
Developing countries
Efficiency
Farmers
Fertilizers
Food security
Households
LDCs
Nigeria
Productivity
Rice
Seeds
technical efficiency
Variables
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Cassava
Corn
Crops
Developing countries
Efficiency
Farmers
Fertilizers
Food security
Households
LDCs
Nigeria
Productivity
Rice
Seeds
technical efficiency
Variables
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