What is it about?
Most farmers in Nigeria are food-insecure smallholders without secure land tenure. Children growing up in these households may be at higher risk of malnutrition.
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Why is it important?
There is a paucity of evidence of the effect of land tenure on child nutrition.
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While the formal land certificate holders had a 13% chance of having stunted children, the informal land document holders were seven percent and five percent less likely to have wasted and underweight children.
Mr. Hussain Kobe Ibrahim
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This page is a summary of: The effect of smallholder land tenure on child malnutrition in Nigeria, Land Use Policy, August 2022, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106214.
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