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The Nigeria-Biafra War, Oil and the Political Economy of State Induced Development Strategy in Eastern Nigeria, 1967–1995

In recent years, the low agricultural productivity, food insecurity and environmental degradation have become more apparent in many African societies.These trends have threatened the farmers' ability to increase productivity and to practice sustainable agriculture.The crisis in agricultural productivity is structural as it is demonstrated by the impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War and the emergence of the petroleum industry in the 1970s.This paper reveals that the agricultural crisis in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa has been misunderstood because the analysis often ignores how the ideology of …