期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：3
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：African food production is in crisis. Today, despite Africa's vast physical and climatic potentialsto produce food, most African States depend on food importation. Africa's capacity to deal withits food battles is severely constrained by its political instability, its early stage of scientific andinstitutional development, and a rapidly changing and complex global environment. In Nigeriaand in most developing economies, there is a fundamental lack of political commitment tocome grips with poverty, malnutrition and access to food. Because of these barriers, traditionaleconomics is a rather limited tool to understand food production and other related variables.Poverty, hunger, malnutrition, famine and starvation in developing economies are just as mucha function of political, macroeconomic, and institutional barriers as lack of technology.Illustrations from the agrarian chaos in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad and others are toonumerous to conclude otherwise. The aim of this paper is to determine and analyze economicsincentives and strategies, which could stimulate commercial agriculture in Nigeria. The analysisis based on the premise that the form of production organization in Nigerian agriculture is themajor constraint to commercialization. The paper concludes that output price subsidy is theover-riding factor in the commercialization of agriculture in Nigeria.
