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discussion paper
Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience
Nigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector.
Understanding the nature of small-scale private irrigation systems in countries like Nigeria is important. This survey provides relevant information from farmers using irrigation to cultivate four major crops, rice, maize, pepper, and okra.
project paper
Synopsis: Constraints for small-scale private irrigation systems in the North Central zone of Nigeria
Using nationally-representative farm household data and a case study in the North Central zone, this study shows that, first, the share of small-scale farmers in Nigeria who intensively irrigate some of their crops has declined in recent years, wh
Agricultural transformation has been slow in Nigeria despite relatively fast growth in the non-agricultural sector of the economy.
journal article
Understanding irrigation system diversity in Nigeria
This study assesses the short-term effects of large irrigation dams on household consumption in the northern part of Nigeria.
This book demonstrates the beneficial role of water and water management in drylands agriculture
discussion paper
Irrigation potential in Nigeria: Some perspectives based on factor endowments, tropical nature, and patterns in favorable areas
In this paper, we briefly explore these three perspectives that can be useful in the future assessment of irrigation potential in Nigeria: (1) factor endowments, (2) challenges inherent in the tropics, and (3) experiences in a favorable area within N
discussion paper
Typology of farm households and irrigation systems
This report summarizes the typology of farm households and irrigators in Nigeria. We apply a cluster analysis method to the Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS)—Integrated Survey on Agriculture data and various secondary data.
working paper
Irrigation pumps and milling machines as insurance against rainfall and price risks in Nigeria
The majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lack the means to mitigate the impact of risks associated with rainfall and commodity prices due to financial constraints and the imperfect insurance markets in these countries.
magazine
Farming Smarter
discussion paper
Market and climatic risks and farmers' investment in productive assets under the Second Fadama Development Project in Nigeria
The majority of African farmers lack the means to mitigate the impact of risks such as those associated with rainfall and commodity prices.
Small-scale private irrigation (SPRI) schemes make up most of the irrigated area in Nigeria, although they constitute only about three percent of the cultivated area in the country.
Small-scale private irrigation schemes (SPRI) have been the driving force behind the expansion of irrigated areas in Nigeria, despite government efforts to promote large-scale public irrigation schemes.