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Chibuzo Nwagboso

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Chibuzo Nwagboso is a Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Abuja, Nigeria. Her work focuses on applied research and policy analysis in agriculture, nutrition, gender, and youth inclusion, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate issues related to the political economy of biotechnology, gender and youth, and food systems. Prior to joining IFPRI, Chibuzo worked as a researcher for Seven Star Consultants Limited, where she specialized in impact evaluations and development studies. She holds a master’s degree in International Business Economics from Coventry University. Chibuzo’s language skills include English and functional French.

Languages spoken: functional French, English

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Intersecting gender and youth financial inclusion in agrifood systems: Evidence from northern Nigeria

2026Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Heckert, Jessica; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Myers, Emily; Popoola, Olufemi; Kabir, Hauwa
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Intersecting gender and youth financial inclusion in agrifood systems: Evidence from northern Nigeria

The agrifood system employs one-third of the global workforce, yet young women and men continue to face persistent constraints to joining this workforce, including financial exclusion. Financial exclusion constrains agricultural employment by limiting young people’s ability to engage in work and to scale operations. Yet the existing literature often overlooks how gender and youth intersect within these dynamics. Using intersectionality theory and institutional analysis, this study examines barriers to financial access and adaptation strategies among young men and women (ages 18–30) in northern Nigeria’s agrifood systems. The analysis draws on 61 semi-structured interviews and 51 focus group discussions with young women and men, alongside key informant interviews with financial service providers and market actors, across five northern Nigerian states with large populations that are “unbanked,” meaning not engaged with formal financial institutions. Drawing on these qualitative data, the study reveals that formal and informal financial institutions jointly reproduce patterns of unequal gendered access. While young men leverage wider mobility and networks to secure trading capital, young women’s restricted mobility and limited collateral confine them to smallscale processing with few growth prospects. Financial exclusion is further compounded by geography, insecurity, and the gendered structure of digital finance. Youth adapt to these institutional gaps through collective savings, trust-based credit, and in-kind payments. The study calls for gender-sensitive, digitally inclusive financial services that complement informal systems, offering an integrated institutional–intersectional framework for promoting inclusive agrifood systems transformation. Its central contribution is an institutional–intersectional analysis of financial exclusion in agrifood systems, showing how formal and informal institutions jointly, rather than separately, produce gendered patterns of access.

Year published

2026

Authors

Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Heckert, Jessica; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Myers, Emily; Popoola, Olufemi; Kabir, Hauwa

Citation

Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Heckert, Jessica; Raghunathan, Kalyani; Myers, Emily; Popoola, Olufemi; and Kabir, Hauwa. 2026. Intersecting gender and youth financial inclusion in agrifood systems: Evidence from northern Nigeria. SFS4Youth Working Paper 18. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Organization. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/184760

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Nigeria

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Gender; Youth; Financial Inclusion; Agrifood Systems; Capital; Access to Finance

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English

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Open Access

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Gender, labor, and output allocation in Nigeria’s aquacultural sector

2026Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Kirui, Oliver K.; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Popoola, Olufemi; Fasoranti, Adetunji
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Gender, labor, and output allocation in Nigeria’s aquacultural sector

Aquaculture is an important source of food and income in Nigeria, but evidence on gender differences in labor participation and output allocation remains limited. Using nationally representative microdata from the National Agricultural Sample Survey and weighted ordinary least squares (OLS) and fractional logit models, this study examines whether the gender of the aquacultural manager is associated with labor participation, production, and allocation of output to home consumption and sales. The results show that after controlling for observable characteristics, households managed by women are not less engaged in aquaculture and do not produce less than households managed by men. Instead, gender differences appear in how farms operate and distribute their output. Households managed by women employ a substantially higher share of women’s labor and allocate approximately 4 percentage points more of their output to home consumption, even after conditioning on production scale, a result that is robust across OLS and fractional logit specifications. Sales shares, however, do not differ significantly by the manager’s gender. The consumption share results may suggest that women’s management is associated with greater home retention of output, which could carry food security implications not captured by standard income-focused metrics, although the survey does not permit direct assessment of food security or nutritional outcomes. The findings suggest that policies aimed at strengthening women’s participation in aquaculture should consider differences in how labor is organized and output allocation, alongside efforts to improve productivity and market participation.

Year published

2026

Authors

Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Kirui, Oliver K.; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Popoola, Olufemi; Fasoranti, Adetunji

Citation

Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Kirui, Oliver K.; Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Popoola, Olufemi; and Fasoranti, Adetunji. 2026. Gender, labor, and output allocation in Nigeria’s aquacultural sector. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2431. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/183852

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Nigeria

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Western Africa; Aquaculture; Gender; Labour; Animal Production; Food Production; Consumption

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English

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Open Access

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Land tenure security, crop choices, and agricultural input investment decisions: Evidence from nationally representative data in Nigeria

2026Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Kirui, Oliver K.; Popoola, Olufemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Fasoranti, Adetunji
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Land tenure security, crop choices, and agricultural input investment decisions: Evidence from nationally representative data in Nigeria

Land tenure security is widely regarded as essential for agricultural investment and productivity growth. However, causal evidence on its effects across multiple farm decisions remains limited, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This study investigates how tenure security is associated with crop portfolio choices and input investment decisions among smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria. It measures tenure security using a composite index, drawn from wave 5 of the Nigeria Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), that captures plot-level perceived security of ownership, and household reported risk of land loss, ownership security, and duration of ownership. The study employs two complementary approaches: a multivariate probit model to capture the joint and correlated nature of crop adoption decisions, and limited information maximum likelihood instrumental variables (LIML-IV) estimation to establish association between land tenure and input investment decisions. Results reveal significant but heterogeneous effects. Greater tenure security increases the probability of cultivating grains and cereals by 29.8 percentage points, while reducing the likelihood of growing legumes and pulses by 24.6 percentage points and horticulture by 11.4 percentage points respectively, which suggests a substitution effect toward grain specialization. On input investments, LIML-IV estimates indicate that a one-unit increase in the tenure security index raises organic fertilizer use by 9.93 percent, inorganic fertilizer use by 6.57 percent, and pesticide use by approximately 0.89 percent. These findings are robust to Lewbel’s heteroskedasticity-based identification strategy. Heterogeneity analysis reveals stronger investment effects among youth-headed households, while impacts on female-managed plots are statistically insignificant, pointing to persistent gender barriers. The study highlights the need for integrated policies that combine tenure formalization with crop diversification support, gender- and youth-sensitive land governance, and input market development in order to maximize the productivity gains from land rights reform in Nigeria.

Year published

2026

Authors

Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Kirui, Oliver K.; Popoola, Olufemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Nwagboso, Chibuzo; Fasoranti, Adetunji

Citation

Olanrewaju, Opeyemi; Kirui, Oliver K.; Popoola, Olufemi; Bamiwuye, Temilolu; Nwagboso, Chibuzo; and Fasoranti, Adetunji. 2026. Land tenure security, crop choices, and agricultural input investment decisions: Evidence from nationally representative date in Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2425. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/183522

Country/Region

Nigeria

Keywords

Africa; Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Land Tenure; Tenure Security; Property Rights; Farm Inputs; Statistics; Land Ownership; Investment

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English

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Open Access

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Blogs

The hunger crisis is set to get worse in West and Central Africa—why and what to do about it
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April 02, 2026

The hunger crisis is set to get worse in West and Central Africa—why and what to do about it

By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui and Chibuzo Nwagboso

Chronic problems of climate change, conflict, and fragile safety nets.

How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria
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March 27, 2026

How school meals are transforming education in Zamfara State, Nigeria

By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Asabe Maidawa, and Aisha Ololade

Scaling up a promising program.

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African Food Systems Forum (AFSF) 2026
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August 31 to September 4, 2026

African Food Systems Forum (AFSF) 2026

The Africa Food Systems Forum (AFSF) will host its 20th Annual Summit in Kigali, Rwanda from 31 August to 4 September 2026, under the theme “Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems: Nourishing Nations, Growing Jobs, Building Resilience.” The Summit will bring together stakeholders from across the agri-food sector for a programme of plenary sessions, technical discussions, […]

2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems
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October 7 to 9, 2025

2025 Gender Conference: Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems

Join the CGIAR Accelerator Gender Equality & Inclusion, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Western Cape Government, in Cape Town for the 2025 Gender Conference, a pivotal gathering at the intersection of gender equality and sustainable development. This year’s theme, “Accelerating Equality in Food, Land, and Water Systems,” highlights the urgent need […]

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June 04, 2026 | In the News

Zamfara transforming education through school meals — IFPRI, WFP (Vanguard News, The Punch)

Vanguard News and The Punch (Nigeria) highlight findings from a recent IFPRI and World Food Programme (WFP) assessment of Zamfara State’s school feeding program, launched in 2025 to address persistent education challenges linked to poverty, insecurity, and weak infrastructure. The articles quote a recent IFPRI piece by Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Asabe Maidawa, and […]

March 08, 2026 | In the News

Hunger crisis is set to get worse in west and central Africa – why and what to do about it (The Conversation)

Countries in west and central Africa are facing a food crisis with multiple causes. Estimates in late December 2025 suggested that 41.8 million people were already in crisis or worse in October-December 2025.