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Poverty and its alleviating strategies among rural farming households in Benue state, Nigeria
The study analysed rural farming households’ poverty status and alleviating strategies in
Benue State, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study were to: describes the rural household heads’
socio-economic characteristics; determine the poverty status of the respondents and its determinants;
and identify poverty alleviating strategies of the respondents. Data for the study was collected from
420 respondents selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. Data collected were analysed using
descriptive statistics, the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measurement index, and the Binary Logistic
regression model. The findings of the study revealed a very high incidence of poverty (70%), having
a gap of 0.34, and severity of 0.17. Poverty in the area is positively associated with the age of the
household head and household size, while gender, educational level, off-farm activity, membership of
a group, farm size, and land ownership are negatively associated with poverty. The common poverty
alleviation strategies identified were agricultural wage labour (48.6%), rental services (45.0%), and
transportation business (36.7%). Therefore, it was recommended that the government and other
stakeholders should initiate sustainable social protection schemes that can assist rural residents in
alleviating poverty until their condition improves