Federal finance and statistics / Central Bank of Nigeria

Food Security Strategy in Nigeria: Is there Need for a Shift in Paradigm?

The paper highlights the problem of food security in Nigeria under a rapidly increasing population and declining crop productivity and sheds light on strategies that can guarantee self-sufficiency, wealth, and employment generation. To meet the increasing food demand in Nigeria, the necessary production growth will to a large extent have to be met by a rise in the productivity of the land. It posited that even though declining crop productivity is caused by several factors, there is no doub | Keywords: NIRSAL, Food security, CBN