DETERMINANTS INFLUENCING FOOD INSECURITY IN WARRI DELTA STATE
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The study investigated the determinants of food insecurity in Warri. In order to attain the objectives of the study, three research questions were raised to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design guided the study. The population of this study
comprised of all the Warri metropolis is divided into three quarters namely Onicha-ugbo, Obomkpa, and Obodo. The population of the study was purposively drawn from respondents who are basically traders/merchants artisans, and civil/public servant of Warri, Delta State. The total population of traders/merchants artisans both male and female was found to be One Hundred and Ninety Two (192) in total. The sample size of the study was a total of 120 respondents. The respondents was 40 for the traders/merchants artisans and 80 for the civil/public servant respectively. The sample will be selected using a stratified and a
simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire titled: Determinants of Food Insecurity Questionnaire (DIFQ) will be used for data collection. The instrument was validated by the project supervisor and two other lecturers in the faculty. For the
determination of the instrument, copies of the instrument were administered to 13 male and 7 female civil servants who were not part of the sample. The Cronbach Alpha was used to ascertain the reliability using test-retest method which yields 0.83. This result implies that the instrument was reliable. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistics was used involved frequency count; simple percentages mean score analysis and standard deviation. Furthermore a criterion
mean of 2.50 was be adopted for decision making. The study found that the study has found that majority of the farmers were found to be food insecure during the period of the survey and several determining factors were identified for the deteriorating food security situation of the study area. They include the shortage of farmland caused by population pressure, recurrent drought, poverty, climate change, shortage of rainfall, and land degradation. Based on the findings of the study, Expand the family planning education to limit the family size of the rural population, which could ease the problem of overpopulation and acute farmland scarcity and design a strategy to diversify the livelihoods of the rural community so as to complement their food gap, Complementarities such as steady electric power and water supplies, good transportation/information and communication technology network, and housing units that will enhance the business ventures of the metropolitan poor be provided since most
of the household heads are at the plateau of their lifecycle (age range within the labour
force bracket), according to the dictates of lifecycle hypothesis amongst others.
comprised of all the Warri metropolis is divided into three quarters namely Onicha-ugbo, Obomkpa, and Obodo. The population of the study was purposively drawn from respondents who are basically traders/merchants artisans, and civil/public servant of Warri, Delta State. The total population of traders/merchants artisans both male and female was found to be One Hundred and Ninety Two (192) in total. The sample size of the study was a total of 120 respondents. The respondents was 40 for the traders/merchants artisans and 80 for the civil/public servant respectively. The sample will be selected using a stratified and a
simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire titled: Determinants of Food Insecurity Questionnaire (DIFQ) will be used for data collection. The instrument was validated by the project supervisor and two other lecturers in the faculty. For the
determination of the instrument, copies of the instrument were administered to 13 male and 7 female civil servants who were not part of the sample. The Cronbach Alpha was used to ascertain the reliability using test-retest method which yields 0.83. This result implies that the instrument was reliable. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistics was used involved frequency count; simple percentages mean score analysis and standard deviation. Furthermore a criterion
mean of 2.50 was be adopted for decision making. The study found that the study has found that majority of the farmers were found to be food insecure during the period of the survey and several determining factors were identified for the deteriorating food security situation of the study area. They include the shortage of farmland caused by population pressure, recurrent drought, poverty, climate change, shortage of rainfall, and land degradation. Based on the findings of the study, Expand the family planning education to limit the family size of the rural population, which could ease the problem of overpopulation and acute farmland scarcity and design a strategy to diversify the livelihoods of the rural community so as to complement their food gap, Complementarities such as steady electric power and water supplies, good transportation/information and communication technology network, and housing units that will enhance the business ventures of the metropolitan poor be provided since most
of the household heads are at the plateau of their lifecycle (age range within the labour
force bracket), according to the dictates of lifecycle hypothesis amongst others.
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