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Nigeria’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation

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Title Nigeria’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
 
Creator Andam, Kwaw S.
Diao, Xinshen
Ecker, Olivier
Pauw, Karl
Thurlow, James
Ellis, Mia
 
Subject agrifood systems
value chains
markets
agriculture
labour productivity
off-farm employment
poverty
diet quality
jobs
development
gross national product
rice
maize
fish
soybeans
cowpeas
 
Description Nigeria experienced a rise and fall in economic growth over the past two decades. The economy experienced strong growth, averaging 7 percent per year, from 2000 to 2014. Then falling world oil prices caused an abrupt decline in Nigeria’s GDP in 2015 and 2016 and the country entered its first recession in nearly 20 years. Since then, the economic growth rate has remained below the population growth rate, complicating efforts to reduce poverty in a country with the world’s second-largest number of poor people (80 million) (World Bank 2022a). Various other factors contributed to sluggish economic growth, including the spread of insecurity and conflict across almost all areas of the country; policies related to COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 (Andam et al. 2020); the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war (Diao and Thurlow 2023); and general macroeconomic instability (World Bank 2022b). Nigeria’s GDP growth is projected to remain low at 2.9 percent in 2023 and 2024, barely exceeding the population growth rate (World Bank 2022c). First quarter growth in 2023 was only 2.3 percent, reflecting the impact of cash restrictions imposed by monetary authorities during the election campaign period (NBS 2023).
 
Date 2023-07-10
2023-08-08T09:33:00Z
2023-08-08T09:33:00Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Andam, Kwaw S.; Diao, Xinshen; Ecker, Olivier; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; and Ellis, Mia. 2023. Nigeria’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation. Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series 14. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136805
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131442
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136805
 
Language en
 
Relation Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 22 pages
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute