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 …

agroecological conditions. This paper addresses these issues using rice in Nigeria as an example. First, this paper shows that rice … suitability of varieties that various seed-sector policies try to disseminate. For countries like Nigeria, where agricultural … varietal development in Nigeria has been lagging behind that of other developing countries in Asia and Latin America, due …