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Agriculture is an important sector in the growth and food sufficiency quest of countries of the world. Some countries have reached food sufficiency level while others are at various level of agricultural development. The Nigeria state is not left out of this quest of attaining food security and food sufficiency. Despite the huge resources investment in agriculture, why has poverty, hunger and unemployment continue to increase? What can be done? The rational choice theory is used to analyse the political economy dimensions of why agricultural policies fail in Nigeria. When the Nigerian state gets it right in the Agricultural sector, it will have ripple effects on other sectors and Africa’s food insecurity challenges will be effectively solved.
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Aluko, O.I. (2020). Agricultural Policy and Food Security in Nigeria: A Rational Choice Analysis. In: Osabuohien, E.S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41513-6_21
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