The Nigerian Rice Economy : Policy Options for Transforming Production, Marketing, and Trade / Hiroyuki Takeshima, Michael Johnson, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, Editor.

Johnson, Michael, Editor.

Takeshima, Hiroyuki, Editor.

International Food Policy Research Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rice trade--Nigeria.

Rice trade.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Rice has become one of Nigeria's leading food staples. And rice consumption has outpaced production, making Nigeria the world's leading importer of rice. As a result, reducing import dependence is now a major goal of Nigerian policymakers. In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency—tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing—and identify improved production and postharvest activities as the most promising. These options, however, will require substantially increased public investments in a variety of areas, including research and development, basic infrastructure (for example, irrigation, feeder roads, and electricity), and rice milling technologies. The analysis, methods used, and recommendations provided in The Nigerian Rice Economy will be equally valuable to a broad range of readers including researchers, development specialists, students, and others concerned with applications of food policy analysis and economic development more broadly in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa south of the Sahara. Contributors: Akeem Ajibola, Xinshen Diao, Paul A. Dorosh, Oluyemisi Kuku-Shittu, Mehrab Malek, Bakare Samuel Oladele.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Rice in the Nigerian Economy and Agricultural Policies

Chapter 2. Evolution of Rice Consumption and Demand Patterns

Chapter 3. Production Systems: Biophysical and Economic Environment and Constraints

Chapter 4. Policy Options for Inducing a Supply Response

Chapter 5. Postharvest Processing, Marketing, and Competitiveness of Domestic Rice

Chapter 6. Policy Options for Modernizing the Milling Sector

Chapter 7. Rice Imports, Prices, and Challenges for Trade Policy

Chapter 8. Economywide Effects and Implications of Alternative Policies

Chapter 9. Transforming the Rice Sector

Appendix A. A Brief Chronology of Nigeria's Political History

Appendix B. The Linear Expenditure System Model

Appendix C. Additional Tables to Chapter 3

Appendix D. Supply Response Analysis

Appendix E. A Mathematical Derivation of the Rice Milling Model for Nigeria

Appendix F. A Stylized Rice Tariff Model

Appendix G. Agricultural Sectors included in the Economywide Multimarket Model

References

Authors

Index

Notes:

"Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780812293753

0812293754

OCLC:

956520608