Dependent food policy in Nigeria 1975–1979

Bibliographic Data

ID11904534
AuthorsOkello Oculi (corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume6
Issue15-16
Publication date1979-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of African Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03056247908703397
OpenAlexW2061538320
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited1

Oil rich Nigeria is increasingly an importer of basic foods. This is a direct consequence of colonial and immediate post‐colonial agricultural policy which concentrated on the production of cash crops for export. In an apparent attempt to become self‐sufficient in food, Nigerian governments have in the last few years gone in for large schemes often involving irrigation, benefiting the rich farmers. These schemes have required the importing of the products of multinational agribusiness, including livestock. Oculi argues for a genuinely self‐sufficient strategy involving the mobilisation of the mass of the farmers and based on indigenous agricultural inputs

Agribusiness · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Cash crop · Colonialism · Economics · Food security · Geography · Indigenous · Livestock · Multinational corporation · Palm oil · Production (economics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology

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