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Article History

Received: 17 March 2025

Accepted: 22 January 2026

First Online: 24 February 2026

Declarations

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: This study received an ethics waiver from the Faculty of Agriculture Ethics Committee, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The Committee reviewed the research titled “ Assessing the Determinants of Cassava yield and its impact on Household Food Security in Nigeria” and determined that it did not require full ethical approval. The study relies solely on secondary, publicly accessible data obtained from the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA)/General Household Survey (GHS-Panel) 2018–2019, collected by the World Bank and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of Nigeria. These datasets are fully anonymized before public release, and no primary data collection, participant recruitment, or direct interaction with human subjects was undertaken. The Committee concluded that the research poses no foreseeable risks to individuals, involves no access to identifiable or sensitive information, and does not employ any experimental manipulation. Confidentiality is inherently protected through the anonymization procedures implemented by the original data providers. In accordance with institutional policy and international ethical guidelines for secondary data analysis, the study was therefore granted an ethics waiver. The investigator will notify the Institutional Review Board should any future changes introduce primary data or new ethical considerations

: There are no known competing financial or personal interests related to this publication, according to the authors.