This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have significant adverse effects on household consumption, human capital, and labour decisions with a degree of impact variability between northern and southern regions of the country. We find that the coping strategies adopted by the poor to deal with the short-term effects of the crises, and which include substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school – especially girls – and engaging children in ...
This study examines household responses to adverse shocks among rice farmers in North-Central Nigeri...
This study endogenously determines the extent of welfare loss during and after the recent economic r...
The study assessed the economic analysis of the effect of flood disaster on food security of arable ...
This article examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on poor and vulnerable hous...
The recent global financial crisis affected almost all aspect of human life. This paper explored eff...
This paper combines nationally representative household survey data from Zambia in 2006, with detail...
Food security has become an issue of global concern in the recent time. Nigeria, with her huge endow...
The study focuses on the analysis of the causality between poverty and crises in northern Nigeria us...
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that affect food shocks and how vulner...
Limited economic and physical capacities as well as environmental and economic shocks have constrain...
This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global fo...
Developed a-five variable VAR model of the Nigeria economy for period 1970 – 2010, the study tested ...
High level of vulnerability of small-scale farmers and poor rural households to economic shocks occa...
The current global food crisis presents a puzzle, thus raising concerns among researchers and policy...
Food security in many developing countries has been threatened by several factors such as unequal la...
This study examines household responses to adverse shocks among rice farmers in North-Central Nigeri...
This study endogenously determines the extent of welfare loss during and after the recent economic r...
The study assessed the economic analysis of the effect of flood disaster on food security of arable ...
This article examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on poor and vulnerable hous...
The recent global financial crisis affected almost all aspect of human life. This paper explored eff...
This paper combines nationally representative household survey data from Zambia in 2006, with detail...
Food security has become an issue of global concern in the recent time. Nigeria, with her huge endow...
The study focuses on the analysis of the causality between poverty and crises in northern Nigeria us...
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that affect food shocks and how vulner...
Limited economic and physical capacities as well as environmental and economic shocks have constrain...
This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global fo...
Developed a-five variable VAR model of the Nigeria economy for period 1970 – 2010, the study tested ...
High level of vulnerability of small-scale farmers and poor rural households to economic shocks occa...
The current global food crisis presents a puzzle, thus raising concerns among researchers and policy...
Food security in many developing countries has been threatened by several factors such as unequal la...
This study examines household responses to adverse shocks among rice farmers in North-Central Nigeri...
This study endogenously determines the extent of welfare loss during and after the recent economic r...
The study assessed the economic analysis of the effect of flood disaster on food security of arable ...