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Infrastructure and Sustainable Food Production in Nigeria: An Empirical Study of the FAO Methodology and Keynesian Theory on Government Spending

In a 2016 methodology working document, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) proposed agriculture-specific and agriculture-supportive government expenditures. This study adopted some of the proposed categories of government spending to establish the effects of infrastructure on food security in Nigeria. Time series (1960–2020) on relevant variables were sourced from the WDI database provided by the World Bank, and the Food and Agriculture Organization Statistics (FAOSTAT). Data analysis was based on descriptive statistics and the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS). The included serie…