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| Title | Policy benchmarking and tracking the agricultural policy environment in Nigeria |
| Author |
Sanyal, Prabuddha Babu, Suresh Chandra |
| ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8706-2516 Babu, S. |
| Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Although the Nigerian economy depends significantly on the oil sector, agriculture remains its mainstay. Agriculture contributed 42 percent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2008 (National Bureau of Statistics). Agriculture is the second largest export earner after crude oil and the largest employer of rural labor; thus, the sector ranks as a key contributor to wealth creation and poverty reduction. However, despite having grown at an annual rate of 6.8 percent from 2002 to 2006�2.8 percentage points higher than the sector�s annual growth between 1997 and 2001�food security remains a major concern due to the subsistence nature of the country�s agriculture (Nwafor 2008). Many of the strategies used to improve agricultural growth in the past have failed because the programs and policies were not sufficiently based on in-depth studies and realistic pilot surveys (Adebayo et al. 2009). This can be broadly attributed to two factors. First, policies lack public participation in design, formulation, implementation, and evaluation, and therefore, the extent that policies reflect public interest is questionable. As a result, policies deemed important by sectoral ministries are often implemented without open dialogue and discussions among the stakeholders. Second, efforts to implement policies suffer from a lack of appropriate capacity within sectoral ministries and a poor understanding of the specifics by policy implementers. Thus, it is critical to assess Nigeria's current policymaking and agenda-setting process in order to devise strategies for improving agriculture and reducing poverty (Adebayo et al. 2009). |
| Series Name | NSSP Report |
| Series Number | 5 |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Place of publication | Abuja, Nigeria |
| Full citation | Sanyal, Prabuddha; and Babu, Suresh Chandra. 2010. Policy benchmarking and tracking the agricultural policy environment in Nigeria. NSSP Report 5. Abuja, Nigeria: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/1054 |
| Language | English |
| Record Type | Report |
| Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
| Subject - country location |
NIGERIA WEST AFRICA AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA |
| Subject - keywords |
Agriculture Poverty strategy fertilizer policy food security policy Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Poverty reduction |
| IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP32 NSSP |
| IFPRI Division | DSGD |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Physical description | 33 pages |
| IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/policy-benchmarking-and-tracking-agricultural-policy-environment-nigeria |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1055.cpd |
| Date cataloged | 2018-01-22 |
| Date modified | 2018-01-22 |
| OCLC number | 778453231 |
| CONTENTdm number | 1054 |
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| Title | nsspreport5 32 |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1053.pdfpage |
| Date cataloged | 2016-11-04 |
| Date modified | 2016-11-04 |
| CONTENTdm number | 1052 |
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