According to the UNDP (2001) report, Nigeria started its independent nationhood in 1960
with poverty level of only 15% of population, but it is today struggling to reduce it from about …

In Nigeria today, poverty is clearly one of the most profound problems being grappled with
and contributing substantially to the erosion and undermining of the foundations of peaceful …

Poverty is one of the most important phenomenal issues and unfinished tasks of this century.
Poverty, though as old as the history of the world, has assumed multifarious dimensions in …

The quest of making agriculture the focus of the Nigerian economy is no longer negotiable,
considering the fact that in the past it had played pivotal role in the most eventful era of …

The colonial and post-colonial Nigerian State inherited agricultural policy antithetical to its
development and the realization of domestic objectives. This paper establishes a theoretical …

Recently, the current Nigerian government under the leadership of President Umaru Musa
Yaradua announced thát it will soon embark upon large-scale agricultural projects as a …

The paper examines the multi-dimensionality of rural agriculture and rural development in
terms of productivity, income and welfare in terms of health, nutrition, education and other …

There seems to be no controversy about Nigeria being an agricultural country with food
sufficiency up till the late 1970s. However, in recent times the country is finding it very difficult …

Poverty is a negative term, ordinarily denoting an absence, or lack, of mate‑-rial wealth. The
term is used to describe situation of insufficiency, either in the possession of wealth or in the …