Effects of food security and Agricultural land access in Nigeria

Abstract

This study assessed gender discrimination in agricultural land access: Implications for food security in
Ondo State Nigeria. Specifically, it analysed men and female accessibility to forms of land holding and the
factors affecting agricultural land accessibility in the study area. Multistage sampling technique was used
in selecting 240 respondents used for this study. Data collected were summarized using descriptive
statistics such as frequency counts and percentages and correlation analysis was used to test the
hypothesis stated. The results revealed that the mean age of the male respndents was 48.3 while that of
female was 43.7 with the standard deviation of 14.9 and 11.3, respectively. Also, at p ≤ 0.05, there was
significant relationship between accessibility to agricultural land and male and female socio-economic
characteristics such as age (r = 0.484), marital status (r = 0.568), farm size (r = 0.504), farming experience
(r = 0.479), household (r = -0.668), access to credit facility (r = 0.476), and membership of social
organization (r = 0.593). This study therefore concluded that gender differentials, especially with regards
to land favour the males. It is therefore recommended that redesigning and redeveloping the structure of
land policies to be more gender sensitive and inclusive