Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria

The dynamics of agricultural production in African peasant economies featured human fertility in no small measure. The role of increased fertility in agricultural productivity is explained by opposing ideologies, yet, African perspectives on increased fertility for agricultural production, in the c...

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Autor principal:	Fausat Motunrayo Ibrahim
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Lenguaje:	EN FR SR
Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2020
Materias:	agriculture fertility Yorùbá farmers demographic transition Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:921fcb5e3a0e42fd8e80a73f55cc87c22021-12-02T15:22:49ZTracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria10.21301/eap.v15i2.90353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/921fcb5e3a0e42fd8e80a73f55cc87c22020-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1061https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801 The dynamics of agricultural production in African peasant economies featured human fertility in no small measure. The role of increased fertility in agricultural productivity is explained by opposing ideologies, yet, African perspectives on increased fertility for agricultural production, in the current social climate, are seemingly deficient. Using a triangulation of qualitative methods, this work explores agriculture-induced fertility among Yorùbá farmers of Southwestern Nigeria. The findings clearly and dominantly indicate that the option of increasing fertility deliberately through polygyny, for improved agricultural production has tremendously diminished. Instead, concerns over optimum child development, which can hardly be guaranteed with continued agriculture-induced fertility, are stressed. This shows that Yorùbá farmers’ disposition towards increasing fertility is dictated by pecuniary circumstances, thereby accentuating the rationality of Yorùbá culture and its people. Fausat Motunrayo IbrahimUniversity of BelgradearticleagriculturefertilityYorùbáfarmersdemographic transitionAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2020)
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description	The dynamics of agricultural production in African peasant economies featured human fertility in no small measure. The role of increased fertility in agricultural productivity is explained by opposing ideologies, yet, African perspectives on increased fertility for agricultural production, in the current social climate, are seemingly deficient. Using a triangulation of qualitative methods, this work explores agriculture-induced fertility among Yorùbá farmers of Southwestern Nigeria. The findings clearly and dominantly indicate that the option of increasing fertility deliberately through polygyny, for improved agricultural production has tremendously diminished. Instead, concerns over optimum child development, which can hardly be guaranteed with continued agriculture-induced fertility, are stressed. This shows that Yorùbá farmers’ disposition towards increasing fertility is dictated by pecuniary circumstances, thereby accentuating the rationality of Yorùbá culture and its people.
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title	Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria
title_short	Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria
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title_fullStr	Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria
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Tracking Agriculture-Induced Fertility Among Yorùbá Farmers of Southwestern Nigeria

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