GENDER APPROACH ON FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA; AN INDICATION OF WOMEN CONTRIBUTION TO RURAL FOOD SUPPLY
Augustine A. Aveuya and Sesugh Uker
Volume 9 Issue 2
Abstract
The study reveals women participation in agriculture for enhanced food security. The result thus revealed that majority of the women did not have their own farms and were undertaking their farming operations on farms belonging to their husbands or families. They were also utilizing household labour for farming operations. The majority of the women also attained non formal education. The result on the barriers affecting women food production in the study location revealed that they encountered very serious challenges with extension service delivery, agricultural credits, farm infrastructure and education. They also encountered serious problems with adopting innovations, early marriages, marginalization, their flexibility to accept change and irrigation. However, the respondents were of the view that land for food production, market for selling their farm produce did not constitute significant barriers to their operation. The correlation analysis suggests that farming income of women had significant impact on their crop productivity and household food provision. Key words: Gender, Food Security, Subsistence, Rural
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