Nigeria

Publications

journal article

Study of the determinants of chronic malnutrition in northern Nigeria: Quantitative evidence from the Nigeria demographic and health surveys

In Press

Close to half of all children younger than 5 years in the Northeast and Northwest geopolitical zones were estimated to be stunted in their growth for their age in 2013 compared to 22% of children in the rest of Nigeria. We examine the drivers of…

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Farmers’ perceptions of crop pest severity in Nigeria are associated with landscape, agronomic and socio-economic factors

2018

Study links Nigerian farmers’ perceptions of pest severity to the landscape, agronomic, biophysical, and socioeconomic context in which agricultural production takes place.

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Data & Tools

dataset

Segmentation Data for Nigeria and India States of Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh

2017

This dataset was compiled by processing and harmonizing multiple secondary datasets, covering Nigeria and three states in India (Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh), to help those working in the agricultural development sector identify and characterize…

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Dietary intakes, vitamin A, and iron status of women of childbearing age and children 6-59 months of age from Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria

2015

HarvestPlus, part of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), seeks to improve the nutrient density of staple food crops through conventional plant breeding the nutrient density of staple food crops through…

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Blogs

IFPRI Blog

Cultivating growth in Nigerian agriculture with small-scale irrigation

Jan 3, 2018 | Liangzhi You, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Hua Xie

Currently, only 1 percent of Nigerian cropland is irrigated—leaving farmers at the whim of seasons and climate shifts.

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Be patient: Avoid “false positives” in measuring commitments to save

Jul 27, 2017 | Sara Gustafson, Berber Kramer

New research examines how personal preferences and real-world conditions shape people's economic decisions.

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Related Events

Workshop

Developing Evidence for Agricultural and Rural Development Policies and Strategies in Nigeria

May 20, 2009

Abstract The APSF Stakeholder Workshop convened policymakers, farmer organizations, donors, development partners, and members of the research community to learn about research findings on Nigeria’s agricultural development and to discuss future…

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Programs & Projects

Project

Improved Varieties: Cassava in Nigeria

Farmers’ varietal diversification and adoption of improved varieties, and consumers’ preferences for variety attributes: The case of cassava in Nigeria There are two principal aims of this HarvestPlus-funded project: Adoption study: To identify the…

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Pro-poor HPAI Risk Reduction Strategies

The emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and the subsequent threat of a global human pandemic have been issues of great concern to the international community in recent years. HPAI outbreaks can have substantial costs, not only in…

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