Nigeria Sustainable Agricultural Value-Chains for Growth

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The proposed project aims to address the critical challenges that affect competitiveness and resilience of agricultural value-chains, and thus stifle the prospects for value-added growth and job creation. In summary these key challenges include: (i) low institutional capacity and non-conducive policies that affect private sector (including farmers') participation in key value-chains; (ii) structural constraints that affect sector modernization and productivity and thus stifle private sector and farmers' returns and quality of jobs from agricultural value-chains; and (iii) poor integration of farmers to markets. The proposed project will therefore focus on interventions that directly or indirectly contribute towards Nigeria's agricultural sector modernization, productivity and value-added growth, including improved food and nutrition security in line with the country's Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP), National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP). Nigeria's priorities as highlighted in these policy documents is to achieve self-sufficiency in key commodities, transform agriculture into a business-oriented sector, and ensure food security, while also promoting sustainable income and job growth. This operation will also be aligned to the Bank's Country Partnership Framework (CPF) as well as the recent aspirations highlighted in the Global Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) Program and the Mission Agri-connect.