Nigeria Agriculture Policy Project (NAPP)

promote inclusive agricultural productivity growth, improved nutritional outcomes, and enhanced livelihood resilience for men and women through an improved policy enabling environment.

COUNTRY/REC Nigeria

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2015 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 USAID 12,500,000.00
2 Michigan State University (MSU);
3 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 12,500,000.00 0 0
Total 12,500,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

promote inclusive agricultural productivity growth, improved nutritional outcomes, and enhanced livelihood resilience for men and women through an improved policy enabling environment.

Project Objectives

strengthen the national capacity for greater evidence based policy processes in agriculture by increasing the capacity of Nigerian analysts to undertake and make widely available relevant evidence-based policy analysis.

promote and foster informed policy dialogue among all stakeholders in the agricultural sector through an inclusive, transparent, and sustainable process at the country level, building blocks for a well-integrated and developed national policy system.

support federal and state government efforts to improve their capacities to plan and implement effective policy analyses and programs, and demand and absorb policy research in their policy process.

Project activities

Capacity Building

Policy research

Dissemination of Related Activity

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Dr. George Mavrotas
  • Chief of Party
  • "International Food Policy Research Institute Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria."

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Dr. Saweda Liverpool-Tasie

Project Notes

Target crop: rice, sorghum, cowpeas, tomatoes, onions and peppers