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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ajibola, Akeem,; Bakare, Oladele Samuel,; Diao, Xinshen,; Dorosh, Paul A.,; Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena,; Johnson, Michael,; Kuku-Shittu, Oluyemisi,; Malek, Mehrab,; Takeshima, Hiroyuki,
• HerausgeberIn: Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena,; Johnson, Michael,; Takeshima, Hiroyuki,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 36 illus.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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