Fuzzy Indicator of Sustainable Land Management and Its Correlates in Osun State, Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5219633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abayomi Samuel Oyekale (0000-0001-8030-8950, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, North-West University Mafikeng Campus , Mmabatho, 2735 South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 175-182 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608 |
| Publisher | Kamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09709274.2012.11906509 |
| OpenAlex | W2184249801 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Sustainable land management (SLM) is one of the major issues of concern to Nigerian policy makers due to persistent degradation of land. This study applied the fuzzy set method to compute composite indicator of unsustainable land use (IULU) from selected plot-level indicators. Results show that average IULU is 0.43 with 41.48 percent of the farms having higher values. Trends in vegetation covers, vigor of crop growth, crop yields, organic matter contents and type of seeds grown have highest contributions to IULU. Also, estimated parameters with Tobit regression show that education, household size, access to credit, access to extension and per capita farm income significantly reduced IULU, while farming experience, erosion problem and inadequate land problem increased it (p<0.10). The study noted that efforts to promote soil conservation technologies through extension workers and ensuring availability of credits, among others, will go a very long way in addressing land degradation
Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Econometrics · Economics · Environmental indicator · Geography · Land degradation · Land management · Land use · Per capita · Per capita income · Regression analysis · Statistics · Sustainable development · Sustainable land management · Tobit model · Engineering · Environmental Science · Land Rights and Reforms · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics · Soil and Land Suitability Analysis · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |