This paper examines livelihood strategies and rural income, particularly the various rural enterprises and their contributions to the overall household income, the best livelihood enterprise combination and factors determining income generation from empirical data collected from 30 fishing communities in Kainji Lake Basin and among 248 Fishermen (respondents) drawn using stratification technique. Production function model, multiple regression and descriptive statistics were used for the analysis. The result revealed that fishing contributes 44.9% of the total household income followed by fish processing, crop production, livestock and trading with 23.9%, 15.8% 12.4% and 3.1%, respectively. The result equally revealed that multiple enterprises of four generate more income with a mean of N6,227.42 followed by five enterprises with a mean income of N3955.33. The study concludes that multiple activities generate more income to rural household and could serve as resilience against vulnerability and poverty and guarantees livelihood security and resource sustainability. Diversification of livelihood portfolios is therefore a critical turning point for sustainable livelihood, which calls for aggressive adoption by all fishermen.
PAPER TITLE :LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES AND RURAL INCOME AMONG FISHING COMMUNITIES IN KAINJI LAKE BASIN NIGERIA
JOURNAL Of SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY | VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11 2011
Paper Details
- Author(s) : TAFIDA, A.A., ADEBAYO, A.A. GALTIMA, M. RAJI, A. JIMME, M. and JOHN, C.T.
- Abstract:
