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What interventions do you think are needed to increase the agriculture sector resilience to environmental stressors, especially among smallholder farmers?

Presently, in Nigeria it is easier for a well-established farm to get intervention that someone who has a land and a business plan with no heavy funds or assets in collateral

One of the major issues with West African countries is that intervention comes in form of cash which are often diverted of misappropriated.

A lot of awareness is need to make the small farmers see reason to change their ways and ensuring they get practical intervention is one of the many things needed.

Most small scale farmers cannot afford the cost of machineries nor the cost of entry into the elite cooperatives that get easy access to interventions so they continue to toil for their meagre yield. Government intervention is often tied to empowering specific individuals.

Let us assume that instead of giving an individual a tractor, the government gives a farming settlement and locals are able to lease at much reduced rates. This would encourage cooperation in choice of crops (planting, harvesting processing gets synchronized, and ensure the community as a whole is able to work with government policies and goals instead of individuals striving alone.

Insisting on been part of a cooperative has not been working well as the administrators have also sabotaged the process often monetizing benefits to members...hence my suggesting Farm allotted settlements be identified and related with like Local Government Areas thus breaking barriers for everyone within the settlement.