Can Nigeria’s rice revolution help it beat oil addiction?

Ozy reported that Nigeria has built its economy around crude oil, which contributes 90 percent of the nation’s external earnings and 70 percent of its total revenues, but in the process, Africa’s largest economy neglected agribusiness and domestic food production. However, according to Nigeria Program Leader & Research Fellow Kwaw Andam, that is changing. He states, “The agri-food sector in Nigeria as a whole is expanding” and links recent progress to “government protection of domestic production.”