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Nigeria: Country Food and Agriculture Delivery Compact

The strategic importance of the agricultural sector to the Nigerian economy cannot be over-emphasized. Its contribution to GDP hovered between 24.45% in 2016 and 25.70% in 2020 (NBS, 2021). Nigeria is blessed with abundant natural resources, including 70.8 million hectares of agricultural land area in agro-ecological zones that can support a wide range of food products (IFPRI, 2021). There is a huge market within the country and across West Africa of about 400 million people, which Nigeria could exploit given the new momentum to drive an African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to whi…

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