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    EFFECTS OF LAND EXPROPRIATION ON THE LIVELIHOOD OUTCOMES OF RURAL FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
    (2024-01-20) OYESANWEN AUGUSTINE ADEKUNLE
    ABSTRACT Access to land is crucial for the socio-economic development of the majority of Africans who depends on land and land-based resources for their livelihoods. However, taking over of privately owned lands of faming households by the Government will reduce their means of livelihoods. This studytherefore assessed the effects of land expropriation on the livelihood outcomes of rural farming households in Ogun State.A multistage sampling procedure was used to sample 840 respondents from 31 expropriated and 25 non-expropriated communities. Structured questionnaire was used to obtain data on the socio-economic characteristics of households, status of expropriated land, effects of land expropriated on households, livelihood outcomes of farm households,factors affecting livelihood outcomes, and coping strategies for this study. Descriptive statistics, Ordered Logit regression (OLR), Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), Tobit regression (TBR), and Multivariate Probit regression (MVPR) were used to analyse the data. Results revealed that 43.3% of the respondents were above 50years with the mean age of 48 and 49 years old in expropriated and non-expropriated areas respectively, 82.4% were married, 90.6% were male, 72.2% had an household size of 1-5 persons, 79.4% had less than 5acres of land and 88.1% had one form of formal education out of which 42.5% attended secondary school.Most (58.5%) of respondents have not received their compensation for their expropriated land.Also, 49.5% and 59.0% of the respondents in expropriated and non-expropriated areaswere moderately food secure. MPI results showed that majority (82.0% and 83.0%) of the respondents in expropriated and non-expropriated areasrespectively are non-poor. OLR results revealed that age (β= 0.1112), household size (β= 0.1441), access to good roads (β= 0.8916) and participation in off-farm activities (β= 1.1290)significantly (p<0.05) influence food security, while the gender (β= -0.9250), and land expropriation (β=-0.5334) had significant (p<0.05) negative impacts on food security. TBR model revealed that age (β=0.0058), marital status (β=0.0365),and total land size (β=0.0143) significantly (p<0.05) influencethe households’ livelihood outcomes, while age square (β=-6.9E-05), years of schooling (β=-0.0150), tropical livestock unit (β=-0.0035), off-farm participation (β=-0.0213) and farm income (β=-8.09E-08) significantly (p<0.05) decreasedthe depth of multidimensional poverty of the households. MVPR showed that age (β=0.0729), years of schooling (β=0.0360), total parcel of land (β=0.0554), tropical livestock units (β=0.0299) and membership of cooperative (β=0.5917) positively influenced the likelihood ofplanting only arable crops as coping strategy. However, household size (β=-0.1568), access road (β=-0.0068), and off-farm participation (β=-0.7521) significantly (p<0.05) reduced the probability of households’ planting of arable crops. Conclusively, households whose land were expropriated were more food secure with better livelihood outcomes in the study areas. Therefore, government land expropriation policy shouldgive economic and timely compensation to reduce effects on livelihood outcomes of rural farming households and food security in the study area.