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Table 2 Household crop income

From: Shifting livelihood strategies in northern Nigeria - extensified production and livelihood diversification amongst Fulani pastoralists

Land per household (ha)

Households with crop sales (%)

Mean household cash income from crops ($)

Mean household crop consumptiona ($)

Mean total income from crops ($)

0 to 2

50

117

2,202

2,319

>2 to 4

56

717

2,351

3,068

>4b

25

133

2,911

3,044

All

50

867

2,341

3,208

  1. aCalculated using number of hectares per crop, 2012 commodity price per kilogram and yield per hectare (Global-Yield-Gap 2017, FAO 2012)
  2. bFewer than five households in this group sold crops
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