Abstract
This study analyzed the poverty status of farming households to Boko Haram shock in Jere local
government area of Borno State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from 358 households which
were randomly selected across Jere and administered structured questionnaire. Descriptive
statistics, FGT and Logit regression models were used for the data analysis. The result shows that
majority (71.4%) of the respondents were male, 78.4% were married and the mean age is 39 years.
The result also revealed that all the respondents have passed through a form of education and
majority (87.7%) of the respondents were farmers. The result also shows that 49.6% of the
respondents operate below poverty line, while 50.4% were above poverty line. Also, the Tobit
regression model revealed that age, level of education, household size and total income were the
significant variables influencing poverty in the study area. In conclusion, there is incidence of
poverty among the farming households since insecurity has occasioned that the agricultural sector
alone cannot be relied upon as the core activity for households as a means of improving livelihood
and reducing poverty in the study area. The study recommends that since half of the households
live below poverty line, there is need for policy makers to direct appropriate poverty alleviation
programmes and projects on them.
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