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.
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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
The agricultural sector in Nigeria is characterized by low productivity that is driven in part by low use of modern agricultural technologies.
Synopsis: The enabling environment for informal food traders in Nigeria’s secondary cities
Informal vendors are a critical source of food security in African cities and play a key role in food system transformation.
Synopsis: Transforming agriculture for improving food and nutrition security among Nigerian farm households
The launch of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) in 2011 represented a shift in strategy toward increasing the agricultural sector share of the Nigerian econom
There is a need to undertake more thorough assessments of relevant agricultural machinery markets to determine why machine usage by farmers is potentially lower than it would be under ideal market conditions.
The focus of this study is on the physical infrastructure of marketplaces in Kebbi state, Nigeria, an agriculture-based state in the northwest.
Synopsis: Effects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeria
Economies of scope (EOS) refer to the economic benefits of producing multiple types of outputs rather than specializing in producing a specific output. EOS closely relates to the potential for crop diversification.
Recent studies found the extent of food price seasonality in sub-Saharan Africa to be two to three times greater than that observed on global markets.
Expenditures of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the state Ministries of Agriculture in Nigeria need to be accounted for when assessing the extent to which Nigeria is meeting its pledge as a signatory of the Co
To inform discussions on future programming to improve child nutrition, a rapid scoping study of the drivers of undernutrition in northern Nigeria was conducted.
To better understand the drivers of chronic child undernutrition in northern Nigeria and how those drivers differ from those in other areas of the country, an econometric analysis was done of data from the 2008 and 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Hea
Synopsis: Scrutinizing the status quo: Rural transformation and land tenure security in Nigeria
This study examines the drivers of perceived tenure insecurity in Nigeria. The determinants of perceived tenure insecurity are assessed across two indicators: private (idiosyncratic) tenure risk and collective (covariate) tenure security risk.
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
Synopsis: Subnational variation in policy implementation: The case of Nigerian land governance reform
This study focuses on differential implementation of Systematic Land Tenure Regularization (SLTR) across Nigerian states in order to understand the set of conditions that are more likely to facilitate reform.
Synopsis: Macroeconomic factor influence on agricultural program sustainability in Kaduna state, Nigeria
In this study, we measure the degree to which changes in key macroeconomic variables – global oil prices or donor funding levels – affect the fiscal conditions of the Kaduna Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (KDMAF), and, thus, the likelihood o
Synopsis: The role of the locations of public sector varietal development activities on agricultural productivity
Using panel data from farm households in northern Nigeria and spatial data on agroecological factors, this study shows that crop productivity and technical efficiency at farm household level is positively affected by the degree of similarity betwe
A large body of evidence has focused on the drivers of agricultural policymaking in both developed- and developing-country settings.
There is a renewed attention to the performance of the ag-ricultural sector in Nigeria given its potential to serve as an engine of pro-poor growth, create jobs, and support economic diversification.
Past agricultural mechanization efforts in Ghana and Nigeria have focused more on the styles of machinery used in western countries or Latin America, where average farm sizes are much larger.