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Title:A Study of Increased Food Production in Nigeria: The Effect of the Structural Adjustment Program on the Local Level
Author:Shimada, Shuhei
Year:1999
Periodical:African Study Monographs
Volume:20
Issue:4
Period:December
Pages:175-227
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:food production
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Politics and Government
Economics and Trade
Health and Nutrition
Labor and Employment
External link:https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/20-4/175-227.pdf
Abstract:Nigerian food production began to increase in the mid-1980s. However there is no substantial supporting data. To what extent the increase was due to the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) is assessed using the methodology of political ecology. Based on a field study conducted in Ebira land (Kogi State, Nigeria) in 1985, 1989, and 1990, the author investigates how and to what extent the change in agricultural production at the national level has connected with farming at the local level. He concludes that it is highly probable that the introduction of SAP has worked to increase food production, through extensive changes in cultivation. However, the increase in cassava production may have been attained at the ultimate sacrifice of land degradation. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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