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    Correlates of food insecurity status of urban households in Ibadan metropolis, Oyo state, Nigeria
    (2018) Adepoju, A.; Oyegoke, O.
    Food insecurity is a daily reality for hundreds of millions of people around the world especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, the situation is alarming given the efforts made by independent, successive governments to achieve food security. This persistent food insecurity problem has been found to result mainly from unacceptably high levels of poverty, low priority for nutrition on the agenda of government and resulting poor funding. In addition, the high rate of urbanization in Nigeria has exacerbated the problem of urban food insecurity as urban dwellers contribute to an increasingly important share of the food insecure. In the light of this, the correlates of food insecurity of households in Ibadan Metropolis were examined using data collected from 150 representative households. Data obtained were analyzed employing descriptive statistics, food security index and the probit model. The estimated food insecurity line was 1948.82. Based on this, 29.3 percent of the households were classified as food insecure while 70.7 percent were classified as food secure. Econometric analysis revealed that asset ownership, tertiary educational status of the household head, household size and employment status of the household head were among the major determinants of household food insecurity in the study area. Efforts at improving urban food security should therefore take these factors into account. This could be through the targeting of vulnerable households for social protection measures that would strengthen their asset base among other measures.
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    Willingness to pay for rehabilitation of Ibadan urban environment through reforestation projects
    (Department of Forest Resources Management , University of Ibadan, 2002) Popoola, L.; Ajewole, O.
    This study was carried out to determine the estimated value of the environmental service functions of the forests of the Ibadan metropolis. It employed the payment card format -Contingent Valuation approach - to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental rehabilitation of the Ibadan metropolis through reforestation projects, and to investigate the extent to which socio-economic factors influence the WTP. Data were obtained from a multi-stage randomly sampled 370 residents within the five local government areas of the metropolis. The results show that 77% of the respondents were willing to pay various amounts ranging from N50-N500 monthly, NlOO being the modal value, having recorded a 52% response. The mean monthly WP value is N161, resulting in an aggregate estimated value of Ibadan urban forests’ environmental service functions, ranging between N185 468 586 and N240 868 294 (US$1 = NlOO). The reduced model of the double log regression equation revealed the respondents’ employment status and proximity to the urban forest reserves as the only socio-economic variables that significantly influenced WTP. The differences in the mean WTP values within each independent socio-economic variable were not significant (p > 0.05). The results of this study show that there is a need for social valuation of forestry and non-forestry projects that have to do with conversion of forest lands, as a panacea for uncontrolled deforestation.