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Assessing the Factors influencing Access to land for Urban Agriculture in Southeast Nigeria

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  • Chukwudi Charles Olumba
  • Jonathan Okechukwu Alimba
  • Oyinkan Tasie

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Key Findings -The majority (59.6%) of urban farmers face tenure insecurity, as they cultivate open spaces/ land. -Access to land for urban agriculture was positively related to credit access and cooperative membership and negatively related to the age of the farmers and conflicting land use. -Credit access, land tenure security and income of the farmers have positive effect on the size of land accessed by urban farmers. -The age and gender of urban farmers negatively influenced the size of land accessed by the urban farmers.

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  • Chukwudi Charles Olumba & Jonathan Okechukwu Alimba & Oyinkan Tasie, 2019. "Assessing the Factors influencing Access to land for Urban Agriculture in Southeast Nigeria," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 303580, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:303580
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.303580
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    1. Shirzad, Hossein & Barati, Ali Akbar & Ehteshammajd, Shaghayegh & Goli, Imaneh & Siamian, Narges & Moghaddam, Saghi Movahhed & Pour, Mahdad & Tan, Rong & Janečková, Kristina & Sklenička, Petr & Azadi,, 2022. "Agricultural land tenure system in Iran: An overview," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 123(C).

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    Food Security and Poverty; International Development;

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