The scourge of poverty, including its correlates, has been witnessing an incremental sequence over the years in Nigeria despite the natural endowment of the country. Efforts by various stakeholders to address this problem have not yielded tangible results. Using cross-sectional data collected in 2015 on 775 cassava farmers spread across four geographical zones, this study estimates multidimensional poverty of cassava producers in Nigeria. This is to determine the factors responsible for poverty increase and contribution(s) of these factors to poverty. The study found that about 74% of the respondents were multidimensionally poor. Assets and public/housing utility were the main contributors to aggregate multidimensional poverty index (MPI), while education and health contributed most to povertyreduction. The results also showed major contributing indicators to MPI to be formal employment, school enrolment, years of schooling, frequency of hospital visits, and household assets’ ownership. The South-eastzone of Nigeria had the highest adjusted headcount of poverty among cassava producers. The estimated coefficient of age, farming experience, years of schooling, household size, and access to informal credit were significant determinants of poverty in the study area. In conclusion, the results suggest that although Nigeria is a federation of more than 30 states that continue to rely on nation-wide policy initiatives of the central government, policies on cassava aiming to lift millions of people out of poverty should instead vary according to the peculiar poverty dimensions of each federation unit. We suggest reform in the agriculture sector that will emphasize facilitation and access to incentives (credits, training, extension, cooperate system, etc.) by younger farmers to engage in modern cassava farming, thereby, enhancing the chances of rural cassava growers to move out of poverty.

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估计尼日利亚木薯生产者的多维贫困：模式和社会经济决定因素

尽管该国拥有自然禀赋，但多年来，尼日利亚的贫困祸害，包括其相关因素，一直在逐步增加。各利益攸关方为解决这一问题所做的努力并未取得切实成果。本研究使用 2015 年收集的关于分布在四个地理区域的 775 名木薯农民的横断面数据，估计了尼日利亚木薯生产者的多维贫困。这是为了确定导致贫困增加的因素以及这些因素对贫困的贡献。研究发现，大约 74% 的受访者是多维贫困的。资产和公共/住房效用是综合多维贫困指数（MPI）的主要贡献者，而教育和健康对减贫贡献最大。结果还显示，对 MPI 的主要贡献指标是正式就业、入学率、受教育年限、就诊频率和家庭资产所有权。在木薯生产者中，尼日利亚东南部的调整后贫困人数最高。年龄、耕作经验、受教育年限、家庭规模和获得非正式信贷的估计系数是研究地区贫困的重要决定因素。总之，结果表明，尽管尼日利亚是一个由 30 多个州组成的联邦，这些州继续依赖中央政府的全国性政策举措，但旨在使数百万人摆脱贫困的木薯政策应该根据具体情况而有所不同。每个联邦单位的特殊贫困维度。