Tolulope Olayemi Oyekale Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria ABSTRACT Poverty reduction is the goal of all rural development programs embarked upon by Nigerian government. This is important because poverty is a critical problem in Nigeria and the rural areas are mostly affected. This study examined the impact of government programs on the multidimensional poverty of ...

Sanders, Kathryn E. M.S., Purdue University, May 2012. Relative Importance of Water Quality and Habitat to Fish Communities in Streams Influenced by Agricultural Land Use in the Cedar Creek Watershed, Indiana. Major Professor: Robert B. Gillespie. Agricultural land use has been shown to negatively impact fish communities in headwater streams that also serve as agricultural drainage ditches. The...

Agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of Africa, Nigeria inclusive. But the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. An understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

A new index for agricultural drought monitoring is presented based on the integration of different soil/vegetation remote sensing observations. The synergistic fusion of the surface soil moisture (SSM) from the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission, with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) derived land surface temperature (LST), and water/vegetation indices for a...

BACKGROUND Despite advances in treatment of people living with HIV, morbidity and mortality remains unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa, largely due to parallel epidemics of poverty and food insecurity. METHODS/DESIGN We conducted a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a multisectoral agricultural and microfinance intervention (entitled Shamba Maisha) designed to improve foo...

Agricultural irrigation is the largest (80%) user of freshwater resources. With increasing freshwater demand, it is important to make optimal use of water resources with improved agricultural productivity through objective and accurate information provided by remote sensing. This paper reviews the potential of applications of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture and vegetation for agricult...

Ample evidence exists to suggest that nonlinear asset dynamics can give rise to an environ­ ment of poverty traps. When dynamic asset thresholds matter, asset insurance offers great promise for managing risks that vulnerable households face. In this paper, we use dynamic programming techniques to generate an option value measure of welfare gains attributable to asset insurance in this context. ...

considering the expansion of global poverty and its resulting concerns, the objectives of the millennium development goals (mdgs) may not be achieved unless a solution is found for this widespread phenomenon. therefore finding a solution for poverty reduction and improving the welfare of the vulnerable group has become a universal objective. this paper discusses the poor performance of formal f...