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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. |