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Economic Importance of Agriculture for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria

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Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Poverty is a multidirectional socioeconomic problem. It is a major phenomenon in developing countries with different dimension and facet. It is a global issue which is prominent in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries as it affects over 767million people living in extreme poverty while two-third live in rural areas (World Bank 2016). It is a state in which an individual is unable to cater for basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter, lack of skills, gainful employment, and self-esteem. In addition, limited access to economic infrastructure and social welfare like health care, education, portable water, security, deficiency of resources such as basic infrastructures: electricity supply, good roads, schools; asset and susceptibility to illness that leads to physical deprivation and hunger (CBN 1999; World Bank 2000). Furthermore, poverty as cited in Aderonmu (2010) is the lack of command over basic needs; undergoing insufficient level of consumption and the inability to...

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Bello, K.M. (2020). Economic Importance of Agriculture for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_124-1

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