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    EFFECTS OF RURAL LAND MARKETS ON INTRA-HOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION AMONG COCOA-BASED FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY., 2022) ESTHER ISEOLUWA ABIMBOLA
    This study described the socio-economic characteristics of the farm household members; assessed the rural land market situation in Osun State; estimated the farm and non-farm income of the farm households; and determined the influence of rural land markets on intra-household resource allocation, with a view to improving the land market situation, and ensuring effective and efficient allocation of resources among the cocoa-based farming households. Multistage sampling technique was used for the selection of respondents for this study. At the first stage, Ife-Ijesa zone was purposively selected because of the concentration of cocoa farming households in the zone. At the second stage, the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the zone were stratified into two groups i.e. rural and urban, from the rural LGAs, 4 LGAs out of 10 were purposively selected based on the availability of tenants farming households in the LGA. From the selected LGAs, 5 villages were selected at random; within each village, farming households were stratified into landlords and tenants; 5 landlord and 5 tenant farming households were selected at random from each of the villages, making a total of 200 farming households. The primary data were collected from the respondents with the aid of a pre-tested questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, two stage least square (2SLS) and quadratic almost ideal demand systems (QUAIDS) model were used to analyse the data collected