Poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the
environment and most of the poor are rural-based who
engage in various agricultural activities. Land is a critical asset
for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify
agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse
this natural resource base to meet basic needs. This study
presents empirical relationship between land and poverty using
Foster, Greer and Thorbecke weighted poverty measure. Through
the multi-stage sampling procedure, 150 rural farmers were selected
with the aid of questionnaire. The results of poverty decomposition
show that the prevalence of poverty is more among
the nearly landless farming households. Result of stochastic
dominance analysis indicate that poverty incidence is sensitive
to changes in poverty lines and there is second order stochastic
dominance as poverty depth and severity are robust to the
choice of poverty line for this sub-group. Results further suggest
that households with little or no access to farmland depend on
non-farm income sources for family survival.