Achieving agricultural transformation and farmer resilience in resource‐dependent developing countries like Nigeria is complicated by volatile macroeconomic conditions, which disrupt agricultural supply chains through income, foreign exchange, and
The Nexus Project is a collaboration between IFPRI and its partners, including national statistical agencies and research institutions.
The FAO-IFPRI study, of which this policy brief is a summary, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other driven implements and equipment in agricu
This factsheet describes a planned project in Nigeria, working with existing partners, that will provide useful policy recommendations for empowering women in the public sphere.
Child labour in agriculture remains a global concern. Agriculture is the sector where most child labour is found. Employment of children mostly relates to farm household poverty in developing countries.
One of the greatest global challenges today is ensuring widespread availability and equitable access to affordable, nutritious foods produced in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Gender differences in the engagement of work activities across sectors are important elements of gender inequality in rural livelihoods and welfare in developing countries.
Agricultural research and development (R&D) is one component of public investments in the agricultural sector toward food system transformation.
The 2018 Nigeria Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI's Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data.
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on households’ income, jobs, and food security have continued despite perceptible reductions in transmission and lifting of restrictive policy measures in several countries.
Malnutrition, largely attributable to poor diets among both the rich and poor, presents a growing challenge in Nigeria.
The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies.
The importance of an enabling environment for effective nutrition advocacy is well-recognized, and several key elements of such an environment have been well-established in existing research.
Les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire (PRFI), notamment en Afrique subsaharienne, font face à une « nouvelle réalité nutritionnelle » (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) appelée le double fardeau de la malnutrition, où les enfants de m
Cette note fournit des orientations pour l’amélioration des politiques pertinentes en matière de nutrition en Afrique de l’Ouest.
Transform Nutrition West Africa a identifié les principales priorités pour des actions futures dans la région de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.
This study estimates the effects of the shares of subnational public expenditure (PE) for agriculture, health, education, and social-welfare, as well as PE-size, on household-level outcomes, using nationally representative panel household data and
Public expenditures (PE) are critical for key public sector functions that contribute to development and welfare improvements, including the provisions of necessary public goods and the mitigation of market failures.
Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries.