The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Nigeria

Olomola, Aderibigbe S.

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“…In Zambia, deeply rooted mistrust between the government and the private sector significantly delayed imports of maize and thus prolonged the domestic crisis (Chapoto 2012). In Nigeria, large quantities of imported rice procured by the government were meant to be distributed to the poor, but much of it ended in the control of well-connected cronies, including senators, emirs, and local monarchs (Olomola 2013). …”

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“…Ethiopia experiences substantial variations in maize production over time (FAOSTAT 2013a), but domestic storage serves to close the gaps between production and use with little reliance on international trade (Tadesse and Guttormsen 2011). Demand for maize in Nigeria tends to follow domestic supply quite closely (FAOSTAT 2013a), although Nigeria is dependent upon imports of rice (Olomola 2013). Malawi and Zambia have traditionally depended on maize imports from neighbouring countries, but both countries recently managed to become largely self-sufficient in maize and even produced a small surplus for exports (Chapoto 2012;Chirwa and Chinsinga 2013;FAOSTAT 2013aFAOSTAT , 2013b).…”

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“…It covers the markets for three grain commodities; maize, wheat, and rice, in fourteen developing countries. It is based on a number of case studies, one for each country, undertaken in Bangladesh (Raihan 2013), Brazil (Mueller and Mueller 2012), China (Huang, Yang, and Rozelle 2013), Egypt (Ghoneim 2012), Ethiopia (Admassie 2013), Kenya (Nzuma 2013), India (Ganguli and Gulati 2013), Malawi (Chirwa and Chinsinga 2013), Mozambique (Nhate and Massingarela 2013), Nigeria (Olomola 2013), Senegal (Resnick 2013), South Africa (Kirsten 2012), Vietnam (Nguyen 2013) and Zambia (Chapoto 2012) as part of a project on the political economy of food price policy. 1 What is widely known as the global food crisis, designates a period from the early 2007 to the mid-2008, during which the prices of a number of food commodities increased sharply.…”

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International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007–8 Food Crisis

Baltzer¹

2014

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

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This paper synthesizes the evidence on price transmission from international maize, rice and wheat markets to domestic markets in fourteen developing countries during the global food crisis in 2007-08. A great variation in the price transmission patterns is observed; from almost no price pass-through in China and India, over close relationship between international and domestic prices in Brazil and South Africa, to substantial domestic price overshooting in Ethiopia and Nigeria. Much of this variation can be explained by price stabilization policies, public policy failure, incomplete market integration, and coinciding domestic shocks.

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International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007–8 Food Crisis

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2014

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

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“…Also, the research-to-policy linkages have been generally described as weak [24]. Some factors have been cited for the low uptake of research by Nigerian policymakers including the lack of high-quality research, generally weak and unreliable research institutions and think tanks and apparent disconnect between researchers and policymakers [25].…”

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The challenge of bridging the gap between researchers and policy makers: experiences of a Health Policy Research Group in engaging policy makers to support evidence informed policy making in Nigeria

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BackgroundGetting research into policy and practice (GRIPP) is a process of going from research evidence to decisions and action. To integrate research findings into the policy making process and to communicate research findings to policymakers is a key challenge world-wide. This paper reports the experiences of a research group in a Nigerian university when seeking to ‘do’ GRIPP, and the important features and challenges of this process within the African context.MethodsIn-depth interviews were conducted with nine purposively selected policy makers in various organizations and six researchers from the universities and research institute in a Nigerian who had been involved in 15 selected joint studies/projects with Health Policy Research Group (HPRG). The interviews explored their understanding and experience of the methods and processes used by the HPRG to generate research questions and research results; their involvement in the process and whether the methods were perceived as effective in relation to influencing policy and practice and factors that influenced the uptake of research results.ResultsThe results are represented in a model with the four GRIPP strategies found: i) stakeholders’ request for evidence to support the use of certain strategies or to scale up health interventions; ii) policymakers and stakeholders seeking evidence from researchers; iii) involving stakeholders in designing research objectives and throughout the research process; and iv) facilitating policy maker-researcher engagement in finding best ways of using research findings to influence policy and practice and to actively disseminate research findings to relevant stakeholders and policymakers.The challenges to research utilization in health policy found were to address the capacity of policy makers to demand and to uptake research, the communication gap between researchers, donors and policymakers, the management of the political process of GRIPP, the lack of willingness of some policy makers to use research, the limited research funding and the resistance to change.ConclusionsCountry based Health Policy and Systems Research groups can influence domestic policy makers if appropriate strategies are employed. The model presented gives some direction to potential strategies for getting research into policy and practice in the health care sector in Nigeria and elsewhere.

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“…In Nigeria, and despite the agrarian structure of the economy, persistent scale and technical inefficiencies in the agriculture sector left the country reliant on food imports and thus exposed to global food price fluctuations (Olomola 2013). Poor households are reported to have reduced the intake of varieties of food like meat, vegetables and rice owing to high prices (IFPRI 2008).…”

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The Impacts of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: A Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

Chiripanhura

Niño‐Zarazúa

2013

SSRN Journal

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This paper examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on the livelihoods of low-income households Nigeria. It uses primary household level data from Nigeria to analyse the impacts of induced price variability on household welfare. Our results indicate that aggregate shocks have significant adverse effects on household consumption, human capital, and labour decisions with a degree of impact variability between northern and southern regions of the country. We find that the coping strategies adopted by the poor to deal with the short-term effects of the crises, and which include substitution for lower quality food, increasing the intensity of work, withdrawing children from school -especially girls -and engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate shocks exacerbate these effects, tackling the effects of covariate risks becomes central for present and future development policy.

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The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Nigeria

Cited by 16 publications

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International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007–8 Food Crisis

International to Domestic Price Transmission in Fourteen Developing Countries during the 2007–8 Food Crisis

The challenge of bridging the gap between researchers and policy makers: experiences of a Health Policy Research Group in engaging policy makers to support evidence informed policy making in Nigeria

The Impacts of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises on Households in Nigeria: A Retrospective Approach for Research Enquiry

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