Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies
Over the past few decades, rice has become one of the leading food staples in Nigeria, surpassing cassava in food expenditure. Throughout this period, consumption has increased faster than production, resulting in a growing dependency on imports. By 2014, about half of the rice consumed in Nigeria w...
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2016
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| author | Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena Johnson, Michael E. Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
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| description | Over the past few decades, rice has become one of the leading food staples in Nigeria, surpassing cassava in food expenditure. Throughout this period, consumption has increased faster than production, resulting in a growing dependency on imports. By 2014, about half of the rice consumed in Nigeria was imported. As the most populous country in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA), Nigeria has quickly become the leading importer of rice on the continent and, more recently, in the world. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1482272025-12-08T10:29:22Z Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena Johnson, Michael E. Takeshima, Hiroyuki imports food production agricultural policies rice foreign trade markets trade policies trade food consumption international trade Over the past few decades, rice has become one of the leading food staples in Nigeria, surpassing cassava in food expenditure. Throughout this period, consumption has increased faster than production, resulting in a growing dependency on imports. By 2014, about half of the rice consumed in Nigeria was imported. As the most populous country in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA), Nigeria has quickly become the leading importer of rice on the continent and, more recently, in the world. 2016-07-22 2024-06-21T09:24:06Z 2024-06-21T09:24:06Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148227 en Open Access application/pdf University of Pennsylvania Press Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena; Johnson, Michael E.; and Takeshima, Hiroyuki. 2016. Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies. In The Nigerian rice economy: Policy options for transforming production, marketing, and trade. Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena; Johnson, Michael E.; and Takeshima, Hiroyuki (Eds.) Chapter 1. Pp. 1-20. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). |
| spellingShingle | imports food production agricultural policies rice foreign trade markets trade policies trade food consumption international trade Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena Johnson, Michael E. Takeshima, Hiroyuki Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title | Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title_full | Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title_fullStr | Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title_short | Rice in the Nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| title_sort | rice in the nigerian economy and agricultural policies |
| topic | imports food production agricultural policies rice foreign trade markets trade policies trade food consumption international trade |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148227 |
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