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Title: | Agricultural Projects and Land in Northern Nigeria |
Author: | Wallace, Tina |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 17 |
Period: | January-April |
Pages: | 60-70 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Northern Nigeria Nigeria |
Subjects: | agricultural projects Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248008703414 |
Abstract: | There are three multi-million Naira irrigation schemes under construction: the South Chad Irrigation project in Bornu State, the Kano River project in Kano State and the Sokoto-Rima Basin Project in Sokoto. They are funded by the Federal Government. They involve costly construction and heavy machinery to create dry seasons, irrigated farming. In contrast, the World Bank projects in Sokoto, Bauchi and Kaduna States, funded by World Bank loans, State and Federal Government, focus on improving wet season agricultural output, by supplying seeds, fertilizers, pesticides to farmers within their existing farming system. Both approaches to modernizing agriculture have a significant, and at times similar, impact on land. The projects affect land tenure in many different ways. The author looks at the most direct impact of change imposed by the introduction of irrigation schemes: that on land tenure, and at the changes in land use brought about by irrigation and World Bank projects and the resulting changes in the value of land both to the farmer and on the market, and their effects on land tenure in the Bakalori Scheme (Sokoto State) and the Kano River project. Notes. |