Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria

The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secur...

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Published in:	Economies
Main Authors:	Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Subjects:	food security technical efficiency nigeria
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/7/4/103

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