Nigeria
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Agrifood policy monitoring
Actual agriculture-specific expenditures in Nigeria from 2015–2021 stood at an average of NGN (Nigerian naira) 151 billion, with the lowest of the period being NGN 61 billion in 2016, and the highest being around NGN 342 billion in 2021.
In the last 6 years (2015–2021), budgeted spending on food and agriculture stood at an average of NGN 1 trillion, while actual spending stood at NGN 518 billion, implying a budget execution rate of 58%.
Nigeria’s agriculture expenditure progress was still below the CAADP 10% target. Between 2015 and 2021, the share of agriculture spending over total public expenditure ranged from a low of 1% in 2020 to a high of 2.2% in 2019 and 2021, with an annual average over the period of 1.6%.
On average, between 2015–2021, 75% of actual agriculture-specific expenditures was directed towards the general-sector support to the sector (i.e. public goods such as research, extension and infrastructure), followed by 18% for payments to consumers mostly through food aid, and around 7% to producers in the form of farm input subsidies. Payments to other agri-food sector agents (i.e. input suppliers, processors & traders), represented less than 1 percent.
News
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MAFAP team meets Nigeria’s Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security to strengthen ties on policy engagement
10/06/2024
The team in Nigeria and Deputy Director for Agrifood Economics and Policy at FAO held a number of high-level meetings with Nigerian policymakers as well as the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria and country heads of WFP and IFAD
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MAFAP and Nigeria hold joint workshop in Abuja to advance agrifood policy support
07/06/2024
FAO's Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme, FAO in Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) organized a workshop on 6th June 2024 to discuss the findings from a series of policy analyses and to present a new economy-wid...
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MAFAP presents initial findings of public expenditure review for Nigeria
16/11/2023
Publications
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National partners
- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
- Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning
- Central Bank of Nigeria
- National Bureau of Statistics
- Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation
Useful links
Contacts
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Jean-Philippe Lodugnon-Harding
Agricultural Policy Analyst
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Manson Nwafor
Economist