Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, FUD, Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria
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Department of Agricultural Economics, SKRAU, Bikaner, India
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Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, BUK, Kano, Nigeria
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Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Federal University Dutse (FUD), Dutse, Nigeria
Abstract
After Alkire's work on multidimensional poverty, literature exhibits a paradigm shift in the methodological approach to investigating poverty in a society. A shift from only an income-economic approach to a social approach that encapsulates a wider livelihood dimension—education, health, and standard of living—has taken the lead in the literature on poverty. Consequently, given this methodological gap in the study area, this research on the multidimensional poverty status of rural households was undertaken to serve as a one-stop solution to the engine growth of the rural economy. Using a multi-stage sampling technique, a total of 120 households were selected, and information elicitation was done by using a well-structured questionnaire complemented with an interview schedule in the year 2022. Besides, the collected information was synthesized with the aid of both descriptive and inferential statistics. Empirically, the study area is populated by an economically viable and healthy labor force, literate, agrarian and technologically exposed, globally integrated, and has a viable social capital pool. However, the rural population is characterized by a vulnerable household size, credit paucity, gender stereotypes, and cultivation of uneconomic holdings. Furthermore, multidimensional poverty is rife in the study area, and the rural populace suffered deprivation in at least two dimensions. The vulnerability to poverty is due to unsustainable large household size and lackluster livelihood enhancement innovative measures. Moreover, an advisory service is the major driving force that regulates the intensity of multidimensional poverty in the study area. Nevertheless, self-help, social, religious, and medical measures were the poverty coping strategies adopted in the study area. Therefore, the study calls for gender mainstreaming to arrest the vicious cycle of poverty among the womenfolk and the provision of augmenting assets to enable these rural poor to overcome distress sales due to the uneconomic scale of operation.
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