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ABSTRACT The intent of this paper is to examine the politics of Nigeria’s food and nutrition policy, as well the political economy of its associated intervention programmes. The focus is on the interplay of forces that informed the... more
ABSTRACT
The intent of this paper is to examine the politics of Nigeria’s food and nutrition policy, as well the political economy of its associated intervention programmes. The focus is on the interplay of forces that informed the character of food and agricultural production, and their attempts to shape Nigeria’s Food and Nutrition Policy along the line of their dominant interest. The ideas and values attached to the dominant trend, which informs the courses action pursued in the process of making available what is necessary in terms of food to the majority of populace is also examined. In Nigeria, like in most Third world countries that were engulfed in a severe economic crisis associated with the transition to market economy driven by globalism, the problems of malnutrition were hardly the priority of the state. This was the trend in Nigeria until such a stage was reach in which the severity and apparent consequences of malnutrition had reached an alarming proportion. Global capitalist economic crisis has made the first decade of the twenty-first century a very difficult period for the Nigerian people. The rising level of malnutrition and household food insecurity has become the dominant trend among the families of the majority of the populace. This has been the trend since the incorporation of the Nigerian political economy into global capitalism. The process has become more intense at the close of the century, with the return of virtually almost disappeared poverty stricken diseases that were associated with malnutrition. Economic restructuring initiated by both colonial and post-colonial state in Nigeria, which was aimed at generating development under the aegis of capitalism, had failed. It is not any longer in doubt that the adverse development in Nigeria’s political economy has engendered the ‘feminisation of poverty’. This has increased substantially the number of poverty-stricken people among the peasantry, most especially children who were exposed to poor food and nutrient deficiencies. This situation that the majority of Nigerian people found themselves in which 43% of their children under the age of five years were stunted and suffer from chronic malnutrition, no doubt call forth for a comprehensive national food and nutrition policy, as well as nutrition intervention programmes.
The intent of this paper is to examine the politics of Nigeria’s food and nutrition policy, as well the political economy of its associated intervention programmes. The focus is on the interplay of forces that informed the character of food and agricultural production, and their attempts to shape Nigeria’s Food and Nutrition Policy along the line of their dominant interest. The ideas and values attached to the dominant trend, which informs the courses action pursued in the process of making available what is necessary in terms of food to the majority of populace is also examined. In Nigeria, like in most Third world countries that were engulfed in a severe economic crisis associated with the transition to market economy driven by globalism, the problems of malnutrition were hardly the priority of the state. This was the trend in Nigeria until such a stage was reach in which the severity and apparent consequences of malnutrition had reached an alarming proportion. Global capitalist economic crisis has made the first decade of the twenty-first century a very difficult period for the Nigerian people. The rising level of malnutrition and household food insecurity has become the dominant trend among the families of the majority of the populace. This has been the trend since the incorporation of the Nigerian political economy into global capitalism. The process has become more intense at the close of the century, with the return of virtually almost disappeared poverty stricken diseases that were associated with malnutrition. Economic restructuring initiated by both colonial and post-colonial state in Nigeria, which was aimed at generating development under the aegis of capitalism, had failed. It is not any longer in doubt that the adverse development in Nigeria’s political economy has engendered the ‘feminisation of poverty’. This has increased substantially the number of poverty-stricken people among the peasantry, most especially children who were exposed to poor food and nutrient deficiencies. This situation that the majority of Nigerian people found themselves in which 43% of their children under the age of five years were stunted and suffer from chronic malnutrition, no doubt call forth for a comprehensive national food and nutrition policy, as well as nutrition intervention programmes.
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ABSTRACT The intent of this paper is to examine the notions of Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba identities. The paper traces the origin of these identities, their myths and realities in relation to politics, socio-economic, cultural and capitalist... more
ABSTRACT
The intent of this paper is to examine the notions of Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba identities. The paper traces the origin of these identities, their myths and realities in relation to politics, socio-economic, cultural and capitalist transformation. Taking into cognisance the degenerating progressive consciousness and nationalism in Nigerian partisan politics and the deepening primitive accumulation in the process of capitalist transformation of the country, ethnicity politics is acquiring more prominence in the struggle for power and national resource control. The reality is that the process of primitive accumulation and formation of the dominant class in Nigeria has transcended ethnic boundaries just as the consequences of the obnoxious act which is translated into hunger, deprivation and poverty of the majority of the Nigerian people.
The intent of this paper is to examine the notions of Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba identities. The paper traces the origin of these identities, their myths and realities in relation to politics, socio-economic, cultural and capitalist transformation. Taking into cognisance the degenerating progressive consciousness and nationalism in Nigerian partisan politics and the deepening primitive accumulation in the process of capitalist transformation of the country, ethnicity politics is acquiring more prominence in the struggle for power and national resource control. The reality is that the process of primitive accumulation and formation of the dominant class in Nigeria has transcended ethnic boundaries just as the consequences of the obnoxious act which is translated into hunger, deprivation and poverty of the majority of the Nigerian people.