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Title:Food Imports and Agricultural Decline: Some Evidence from Nigeria
Author:Dike, Enwere
Year:1989
Periodical:Eastern Africa Economic Review
Volume:5
Issue:2
Period:December
Pages:133-159
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Nigeria
West Africa
Subjects:agricultural crisis
food imports
agriculture
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
international relations
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry
Nutrition policy
agricultural production
Abstract:This article explains the Nigerian food crisis within the context of the relationships of the country's economy to the world market and, in particular, its recourse to massive food imports in the 1970s and 1980s. The oil boom of the 1970s provided the impetus for an unprecedented tempo of economic expansion and the integration of Nigeria's economy into the world food market. The author argues that it is this integration into the world market in the form of massive import consumption by an expanding agro-allied industrial base and an urban population with a high propensity to consume 'superior' grains that facilitated the decline of domestic agricultural capacity. He suggests a policy shift to insulate national agriculture from cheap food imports, especially in developing countries where the agricultural sector is still undeveloped. Bibliogr., notes.
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