IMPACT OF WATER RESOURCES ON FOOD SECURITY IN ISLAMIC ECONOMICS: A CASE STUDY OF ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA.

Abstract

The study examined the impact of water resources on food security in Islamic economics with the applications of structural equation model (SEM), in which seventeen (17) out of the twenty-one (21) Local Governments of Adamawa State were sampled based on the sample size developed by Sakaranj (2003). The findings of the study therefore, shows that, food availability, food stability, food accessibility, and food utilization which are the proxy to food security are significantly affected by water resources. The study recommends that water resources should be utilized in an Islamic economy in order to ensure food availability thereby resulting to food stability, food accessibility as well as food utilization and that government of an Islamic economy should make a provision for storing rainfall so as to improve and support irrigation farming to ensure food security.

Keywords: Water Resources, Food Security, structural equation model (SEM)