Evaluating Competition Constraint on Land Accessibility by Urban Crop Farmers in Lagos

Urban Farm DB summary

This study evaluated how competition constraints affect land accessibility for urban crop farmers in Lagos, Nigeria, using multi-stage (purposive and simple random) sampling of farmers across seven of ten farming-active communities delineated by the Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority, with structured questionnaires analyzed by descriptive statistics and linear regression. It found 19.5% of farmers had been forced off their locations, 10.3% vacated voluntarily, 1.4% left due to high rents, and 67.8% were missing values; urban farmers were largely unaffected by competition or high rents because they occupied marginal land not sought by competing uses, yet regression analysis showed competition constraint explained only 3.5% of variance in farmer productivity while still significantly affecting it, given farmers' confinement to marginal land. The study concludes government should support urban farming by providing designated agricultural land in the metropolis.