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Book Synopsis Political Decisions in the Nigerian Agricultural Industry by : Emmanuel Onucheyo
Download or read book Political Decisions in the Nigerian Agricultural Industry written by Emmanuel Onucheyo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Actors and Institutions by : Tolulope Onadipe
Download or read book Actors and Institutions written by Tolulope Onadipe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how and to what extent the interplay of actors and institutions shape public agricultural budget outcomes in Nigeria, within the framework of actor-centered institutionalism. Through a single-case study of agricultural public expenditure decision-making in Nigeria with within-case analysis, this dissertation examines: i) how the structure of intergovernmental relations affects the roles and incentives of government tiers in the joint provision of public agricultural goods and services; ii) how formal budget rules and informal budget practices affect the roles and incentives of key actors in the federal agricultural budget process, the nature of the interactions between actors in the budget process, and the features of the budget process itself; iii) how and to what extent actors' perceptions, preferences, capabilities, constellations, and mode of interactions within the institutional architecture that governs public expenditure decision-making processes shape subnational agricultural budget outcomes in Nigeria. The dissertation employs in-depth, semi-structured interviews with over 100 key informants at the federal and subnational levels, including government officials, donors, policy analysts, and policy advocates to explain public agricultural budget outcomes in Nigeria, focusing on the interplay of actors and institutions. By doing so, it tried to shed light on the puzzle of underinvestment and misinvestment in African agriculture. This dissertation contributes theoretically, empirically, and methodologically to literature on the political economy of public expenditure decision-making in Africa. Implications for research and policy as well as potential avenues for future research are provided.
Book Synopsis Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future by : Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Download or read book Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future written by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Political transitions, instability, and the resulting refugee crisis have shifted focus away from other pressing development challenges, including slow progress in economic diversification, high unemployment, and persistent high food insecurity and rural poverty. Despite its small contribution to GDP, agriculture is strategic for sustainable development in the MENA countries. Agriculture, for example, is central to achieve food and water security in a region characterized as one of the most food insecure and water scarce in the world. The sector’s role in employment is also central, given the region’s high structural unemployment. However, it will not be possible for MENA countries to develop agriculture without a pathway to structural economic transformation. The region has already started the process of transformation but longstanding challenges remain. This report aims to examine the drivers, constraints, and social implications of agricultural development in MENA and to explore possible cornerstones for new and sustainable development strategies in the context of economic transformation. More specifically, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What development strategies and policies did governments in MENA put in place over the past three decades and how did they affect the performance of agriculture? • How did the structural characteristics of the MENA countries affect agricultural development and the economic transformation process in the region? • What did we learn from the past performance of agriculture? What should be the central elements guiding future agricultural policies? • What are elements of a new and sustainable development strategy in MENA countries? • What is the role of agriculture and agro-industries for development in MENA?
Author :Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 13 :0812293754 Total Pages :321 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis The Nigerian Rice Economy by : Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong
Download or read book The Nigerian Rice Economy written by Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved production and post-harvest activities as the most promising. These options however, will require substantially increased public investments in a variety of areas, including research and development, basic infrastructure (for example, irrigation, feeder roads, and electricity), and rice milling technologies.
Book Synopsis Measuring Food Security Using Household Expenditure Surveys by : Lisa C. Smith
Download or read book Measuring Food Security Using Household Expenditure Surveys written by Lisa C. Smith and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Federal government support for agriculture in Nigeria: Analysis with a public expenditure lens by : Nwoko, Chinedum
Download or read book Federal government support for agriculture in Nigeria: Analysis with a public expenditure lens written by Nwoko, Chinedum and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a broad view of public sector support to agriculture in Nigeria, through the lens of the allocation of public expenditures by the federal government in support of the sector. We consider the adequacy and stability of agricultural public spending during the period of 2007 to 2016, drawing on data from the Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, and other sources.
Book Synopsis Rural Development in Tropical Africa by : Judith Heyer
Download or read book Rural Development in Tropical Africa written by Judith Heyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria by : National Research Council
Download or read book Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science, this report explores the ways in which science-based private enterprises can be created and encouraged in Nigeria and other developing countries to provide products and services that government is unable to supply in a timely and sustainable manner. Focusing on three critical challenges to health and developmentâ€"safe water, electrical lighting, and malaria therapyâ€"the report identifies a sample technology to address each of these challenges with potential for commercialization in Nigeria and Africa, and uses that sample technology to identify opportunities and barriers to creating the science-based enterprises in Nigeria.
Book Synopsis Importance of rice research and development in rice seed policies by : Takeshima, Hiroyuki
Download or read book Importance of rice research and development in rice seed policies written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First, this paper shows that rice varietal development in Nigeria has been lagging behind that of other developing countries in Asia and Latin America, due partly to insufficient investment in domestic rice R&D. The paper then illustrates using a household model simulation that impacts of certain policies, such as the seed subsidy, may be greater (smaller) if they are applied to good (poor) varieties. The paper concludes by discussing key policy implications and future research needs.
Book Synopsis Political Cycles in a Developing Economy by : Stuti Khemani
Download or read book Political Cycles in a Developing Economy written by Stuti Khemani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical results from India suggest that politicians exert greater effort in managing public works during election years. Surprisingly, there is no evidence of a populist spending spree to sway voters just before elections.
Book Synopsis Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor by : Philip Keefer
Download or read book Democracy, Public Expenditures, and the Poor written by Philip Keefer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries vary systematically with respect to the incentives of politicians to provide broad public goods, and to reduce poverty. Even in developing countries that are democracies, politicians often have incentives to divert resources to political rents, and to private transfers that benefit a few citizens at the expense of many. These distortions can be traced to imperfections in political markets, that are greater in some countries than in others. The authors review the theory, and evidence on the impact of incomplete information of voters, the lack of credibility of political promises, and social polarization on political incentives. They argue that the effects of these imperfections are large, but that their implications are insufficiently integrated into the design of policy reforms aimed at improving the provision of public goods, and reducing poverty.
Book Synopsis Assessing the state of the rice milling sector in Nigeria: The role of policy for growth and modernization by : Johnson, Michael E.
Download or read book Assessing the state of the rice milling sector in Nigeria: The role of policy for growth and modernization written by Johnson, Michael E. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use an industry profit maximization model to conduct an ex-post impact assessment on the extent the rice milling sector in Nigeria has grown and improved its performance in producing high quality premium rice following major public sector interventions made under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Given challenges with the availability and qual-ity of data, this assessment looks at the changes between two periods, 2009 and 2013, and simulates the performance of the sector under different technology capacities and policy scenarios. We find that the government has been success-ful in expanding quality paddy production and milling capacity in the country along with an increase in capacity utilization in the medium and large-scale milling sub-sectors. As a result, the production of premium quality rice has increased by approximately 0.5 million metric tons between the two periods. Despite these gains, the industry did not see any overall increase in employment in the medium and large-scale sub-sectors. Further focus by the government on expanding the supply of high quality rice paddy, while maintaining high tariffs to keep the medium and large scale milling sector viable, may provide the best opportunity for Nigeria to reach its goal of self-sufficiency in rice production.
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme by : New Partnership for Africa's Development
Download or read book Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme written by New Partnership for Africa's Development and published by Nepad. This book was released on 2003 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Initiative to End Hunger in Africa by :
Download or read book Initiative to End Hunger in Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Tewodaj Mogues, Michael Morris, Lev Freinkman, Abimbola Adubi, and Simeon Ehui, with Chinedum Nwoko, Olufemi Taiwo, Caroline Nege, Patrick Okonji, and Louis Chete Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Agricultural Public Spending in Nigeria by : Tewodaj Mogues, Michael Morris, Lev Freinkman, Abimbola Adubi, and Simeon Ehui, with Chinedum Nwoko, Olufemi Taiwo, Caroline Nege, Patrick Okonji, and Louis Chete
Download or read book Agricultural Public Spending in Nigeria written by Tewodaj Mogues, Michael Morris, Lev Freinkman, Abimbola Adubi, and Simeon Ehui, with Chinedum Nwoko, Olufemi Taiwo, Caroline Nege, Patrick Okonji, and Louis Chete and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda by : Lecoutere, Els
Download or read book Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda written by Lecoutere, Els and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members. Nevertheless, female farmers may also benefit from such services as this may affect their ability to make informed decisions, resulting in increased farm productivity, household income, and welfare. We conduct a gendered field experiment among maize-farming households in eastern Uganda to test whether video-enabled extension messaging affects outcomes related to maize cultivation. In this experiment, men, women, and couples are shown randomly assigned videos about improved maize management practices in which male, female, or both male and female actors are featured. We first vary exposure to the videos by gender to test the effects of changes in intra-household information asymmetries, investigating whether involving women as recipients of information increases their ability to participate in household decision-making, and thus their involvement in household production choices. We then vary exposure to the gender of the actors in the videos to test for role-model effects, exploring whether involving women as information messengers challenges the idea that decision-making is a predominantly male domain, in turn affecting women’s outcomes. Results show that targeting women with information increases their knowledge about improved maize management practices, their role in agricultural decision-making, the adoption of recommended practices and inputs, production-related outcomes, and the quantity of maize women sell to the market. Results for the role-model effects are mixed, and are evident more in joint household outcomes than individual women’s outcomes. Overall, our findings suggest that in the context of our study, extension efforts aimed at directly addressing intra-household information asymmetries may be a first-best means of empowering women in agriculture. Other, more subtle means that seek to influence perceptions and norms about gendered roles in the household may not generate expected effects or work via expected impact pathways, though they remain worth further exploration.
Download or read book Bottom of the Barrel written by Ian Gary and published by Catholic Relief Services. This book was released on 2003 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new African oil boomcentered on the oil-rich Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to Angolais a moment of great opportunity and great peril for countries beset by wide-scale poverty.