Nutritional Vulnerability Transitions among Rural Households in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAdepoju, A. O.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T08:08:45Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T08:08:45Z
dc.date.issued2023-06
dc.description.abstractAims: It has long been considered that specific age/gender groups, such as women and children, are predisposed to nutritional vulnerability. Thus, nutritional vulnerability among agricultural households is neglected and understudied. This study aims at an empirical assessment of nutritional vulnerability dynamics among rural households in Nigeria. Study Design: Secondary data used for this study was waves 2 and 3 of the general household survey panel data. The sampling design consisted of two stages of sampling: the selection of enumeration areas based on probability proportionate to the size of the enumeration areas and the systematic random selection of ten households from each enumeration area. There were 3370 households selected in rural areas and 1630 households selected in urban areas. 2090 rural households with the required information for this study were included in the analysis. Methodology: Descriptive statistics, nutritional vulnerability score, logit regression model, Markov model, and multinomial logit regression models were used to analyse nutritional vulnerability transitions among rural households in Nigeria. Results: Nutritionally vulnerable households in rural Nigeria include those with aged heads, little or no formal education, limited assets, and no access to land or credit. Nutritional vulnerability in rural Nigeria is primarily transient, with around two-fifths of households experiencing transient nutritional vulnerability and nearly one-third experiencing chronic nutritional vulnerability. While the age of the household head, tertiary education, and access to credit all had a substantial impact on transient nutritional vulnerability, gender, tertiary education, asset value, and access to credit all had an impact on chronic nutritional vulnerability. Conclusion: Support mechanisms such as initiatives to promote access to healthy food, credit, land, and education are critical. To successfully address the issues affecting the nutrition and health of persons facing vulnerabilities, social welfare programs with interventions based on the characteristics of each vulnerable group and the predisposing factors should be adopted.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Agricultural Economics, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeriaen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdepoju A. O.. Nutritional Vulnerability Transitions among Rural Households in Nigeria. European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety. 2023 Jun; 15(6): 1-13en_US
dc.identifier.issn2347-5641
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/219672
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherSciencedomain Internationalen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber6en_US
dc.relation.volume15en_US
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.9734/ejnfs/2023/v15i61312en_US
dc.subjectNutritional vulnerabilityen_US
dc.subjectchronicen_US
dc.subjecttransienten_US
dc.subjectrural householdsen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.titleNutritional Vulnerability Transitions among Rural Households in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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