Food consumption–production response to agricultural policy and macroeconomic change in <scp>Nigeria</scp>

Ecker, Olivier; Hatzenbuehler, Patrick L.

doi:10.1002/aepp.13161

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“…In Nigeria, previous studies examined food consumption patterns and certain aspects of food security and nutrition (e.g., Babatunde and Qaim, 2010;Akerele, 2015;Akerele et al, 2017;Ecker and Hatzenbuehler, 2021;Mekonnen et al, 2021). According to Ecker and Hatzenbuehler (2021), there has been no general trend toward a transition into the consumption of more nutritious foods, despite increased availability of per capita calories at national level over the previous three decades in Nigeria. During 2012, the daily consumption of calories averaged between 2,936 and 3,422 kcal (Shittu et al, 2018).…”

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Affordability of Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Nigeria

Mekonnen

Akerele

Achterbosch

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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This study examines the cost and affordability of healthy diets in Nigeria. Using the 2015/16 and 2018/19 waves of Nigeria General Household Surveys, we find that, generally, the least-cost options to meet dietary recommendations for vegetables, dairy, and protein-rich foods are more expensive to meet than that of other food groups. Despite improvements during the survey years, the challenges of affordability of healthy diets appear more pronounced in rural than urban, among poorest household groups, and in northern than southern Nigeria. Results suggest that it will be more expensive to meet the dietary recommendation for dairy foods if priority will be given for food systems sustainability over concerns for food preferences of the households. It will however be cheaper to achieve dietary recommendations for vegetables, fruits and starchy staples even when households give more consideration to food systems sustainability than tastes and preferences in their choice of healthy foods. Relative affordability of protein-rich foods are less affected by whether (or not) tastes/preferences or food systems sustainability drives healthy food choices. Key implication is that interventions targeting on affordability of healthy diets should give greater attention to the poorest of the poor, to rural than urban, and to northern than southern Nigeria. Implications relevant for research, policy, and other actors that focus on transformation of the food systems toward achieving healthier diets in a sustainable food systems are discussed.

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Affordability of Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Nigeria

Mekonnen

Akerele

Achterbosch

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…This finding confirms the estimation that low-income countries rely heavily on the domestic production of staple foods to combat undernourishment. As emphasized by Ecker and Hatzenbuehler [ 124 ], farmers in least-developed countries increasingly plant staples for their consumption at the expense of dietary diversification.…”

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The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Erokhin

Tianming

et al. 2021

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Over the past decades, both the quantity and quality of food supply for millions of people have improved substantially in the course of economic growth across the developing world. However, the number of undernourished people has resumed growth in the 2010s amid food supply disruptions, economic slowdowns, and protectionist restrictions to agricultural trade. Having been common to most nations, these challenges to the food security status of the population still vary depending on the level of economic development and national income of individual countries. In order to explore the long-run determinants of food supply transformations, this study employs five-stage multiple regression analysis to identify the strengths and directions of effects of agricultural production parameters, income level, price indices, food trade, and currency exchange on supply of calories, proteins, and fats across 11 groups of agricultural products in 1980–2018. To address the diversity of effects across developing nations, the study includes 99 countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa categorized as low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income economies. It is found that in low-income countries, food supply parameters are more strongly affected by production factors compared to economic and trade variables. The effect of economic factors on the food supply of higher-value food products, such as meat and dairy products, fruit, and vegetables, increases with the rise in the level of income, but it stays marginal for staples in all three groups of countries. The influence of trade factors on food supply is stronger compared to production and economic parameters in import-dependent economies irrelevant of the gross national income per capita. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the research on how food supply patterns and their determinants evolve in the course of economic transformations in low-income countries.

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“…On average, the households have around nine members and cultivate around seven different crops on about 1.59 hectares of land. In comparison, Ecker and Hatzenbuehler (2021) reported an average farm size of about 2.35 hectares when estimating the Nigerian General Household Survey (GHS) data, and George, Adelaja, and Awokuse (2021) reported an average farm size of 3.77 hectares when estimating the same data set. The difference is not impossible, given the fact that the GHS captures households in all geopolitical zones in Nigeria, especially zones with higher landmass than the zones captured in this study (North central and Southeast).…”

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Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

Nnaji

Ratna

et al. 2022

Agric. Resour. Econom. Rev.

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Food security in many developing countries has been threatened by several factors such as unequal land distribution, ineffective land reform policies, inefficient agricultural value chains, and an increasing number of climate disasters. In Nigeria, these threats are exacerbated by rapid population growth and extreme weather events, which have resulted in farmer-herder conflicts in most agrarian communities. This paper examines the differential impacts of the incidence and severity of farmer-herder resource use conflicts on food insecurity of rural households in Nigeria. We employ a two-stage predictor substitution model to estimate survey data collected from 401 rural households in Nigeria. The empirical results show that both the incidence and the severity of farmer-herder conflicts significantly increase food insecurity, and the severity of these conflicts has a larger impact than their incidence. The estimates of the conditional mixed process models confirm the robustness of our results. Additional analysis reveals that the incidence and severity of farmer-herder conflicts positively and significantly affect food insecurity, measured by the number of days with limited varieties of food eaten. Our findings highlight the importance of policy interventions that address ongoing farmer-herder conflicts in affected countries like Nigeria to enhance food security from a sustainable development perspective.

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Food consumption–production response to agricultural policy and macroeconomic change in Nigeria

Cited by 16 publications

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Affordability of Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Nigeria

Affordability of Healthy and Sustainable Diets in Nigeria

The Supply of Calories, Proteins, and Fats in Low-Income Countries: A Four-Decade Retrospective Study

Farmer-herder conflicts and food insecurity: Evidence from rural Nigeria

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