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.
This study examines the effect of agricultural productivity change on child nutritional outcomes in Nigeria.
There is a growing interest in the research literature in exploring how child nutrition is affected by sociocultural practices, such as polygyny.
Informal vendors are a critical source of food security for urban residents in African cities.
The release by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) in 2010 and its successor strategy document, the Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP), in 2016 as official poli
The burden in northern Nigeria of chronic malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, is among the heaviest globally.
Poverty and a lack of awareness seem to be at the heart of the problem of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria.
Despite the rapid pace of urbanization taking place in Nigeria, half of Nigerians (approximately 70 million individuals) still live in rural areas; most of them engaged in smallholder semi-subsistence agriculture.
Nigeria is still characterized by high reliance on food imports.
Malnutrition rates among children 0-36 months and women of reproductive age in Nigeria are high and vary significantly across rural-urban locations, geopolitical regions, and agroecological zones, constituting a significant public health challenge