Volume 11, Issue 23, January - June 2025

Deriving the roles of health as limitative factor in livelihood and wellbeing among poultry farm holders: An empirical magnitudinal disintegration of the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional poverty indicators

Popoola DP

Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Health has been considered critical to humans’ existence, while its roles in livelihood and wellbeing, remained largely unquantified among susceptible economic stakeholders. This study seeks to explore the limitative health roles in livelihood and wellbeing, using primary data from 210 poultry farm households, collected by a multistaged sampling procedure, and analysed using parametric, and nonparametric tools. Analytical result showed that; majorities (70.83%) of the healthlimited households were solely farmers, with higher multidimensional poverty incidence, and significantly fewer rooms per household, relative to the health nonlimited households category. Furthermore, result from the derived- disintegrated Alkire- Foster Multidimensional poverty measure on determining health limitational contributions to multidimensional poverty, found that the mean weighted health deprivation (Mean HW) score, and mean deprivation counts (Mean DC) for the health-limited households was 16.667, and 29.398 respectively, while the computed health-livelihood limitation contributions to multidimensional poverty was 56.69%, implying that health constituted Lion’s share of their multidimensional poverty weights (DC), with a very high difference significance. Also, the result of the analyses on the influence of health- livelihood limitation on output level showed that daily output of the health non-limited farmers significantly exceeds the health-limited category by 268.91%, wherein, daily output suffers a cumulative average of about 38.4 crates shortages per day, in association with health’s livelihood limitation, which also amounts to $2800.941 monthly, per head, using the current exchange rate of $1700/ NGN while; Marital status, Household size, Primary occupation, Access to infrastructure, and Housing; but Farm income, and Cooperative membership, significantly influence health-limiting livelihood, and wellbeing positively. The empirical work also impacted existing health economics theories, with the consequential contributory limiting health theoretical concept, while empirical finding-based recommendations were further proffered.

Keywords: Health limiting factors, Health livelihood roles, Livestock Farmers, Health Wellbeing, Health economics.

Discovery Agriculture, 2025, 11, e1da1607

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v11i23.e1da1607

Published: 03 January 2025