The current rise in global market prices for major food commodities almost mirrors that of the 2008 food crisis, presenting a worldwide threat to food security.

In developing countries, a substantial amount of perishable and often highly nutritious commodities, such as fruits and vegetables, are lost after harvest, mainly caused by the lack of key infrastructures, such as electricity and cold chain facili

The production of fruits and vegetables (F&V) in Africa has increased 3.3 percent annually during the last 20 years, but only 0.7 percent in per capita terms (FAOSTAT 2022; Figure 3.1).

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR pivoted its research planning to better support countries as they responded to the crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown policies have disrupted education, health, and nutrition services globally, with severe implications for children’s well-being.

Most countries exempted agri-food systems from “lockdown” policies introduced in early 2020 to curb the COVID-19 outbreak.

Demand for mechanization in Nigeria is growing in a fairly consistent way, as predicted by economic theories. The farming system has intensified and the use of animal traction has grown at a substantial rate.

Africa has experienced a paradigm shift in mechanization in the past three decades. The “new paradigm” has also given rise to new challenges and policy issues.

Using the 2013 Demographic Health Survey data, this chapter revisits the debate on child poverty drivers in Nigeria by employing a multidimensional poverty approach.

Through sustainable land and water management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Notre objectif dans ce chapitre est d’aider les décideurs et les chercheurs à mieux comprendre et anticiper les impacts probables du changement climatique sur l’agriculture et sur les ménages vulnérables au Nigeria.

Since the turn of the century, overall economic growth in Nigeria has been consistently strong—averaging around 5.4 percent per year, up substantially from about 2.0 percent during 1990–2000.

This book presents analyses of primary and secondary data on the production, domestic market, processing, consumption, and trade for the rice economy in Nigeria using a variety of economic models.

The objective of this chapter is to assess the potential for transforming and modernizing the domestic rice milling sector in Nigeria using a mathematical programming model.

The objective of this chapter is to examine empirically some of the key economic factors affecting the profitability of paddy rice production at the farm level and, given these current conditions, estimate whether price incentives are able to indu