Agricultural Crisis in Africa : Nigerian Experience

Agriculture has declined in absolute terms in Nigeria since the mid 1970s, reflected by the rapid disappearance of most of the export commodities from the international market and the increased importation of some of these commodities, along with foodstuffs that can be produced domestically.

This book challenges causes advanced to explain the problem in the past - westernization, the drought, and farmers' non-receptiveness to innovation - and poses a critical cause and effect analysis of the underlying economic, social, and political institutions under which agricultural activities suffered, and which led to the present state of affairs.