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  Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project September 2018 Oluwatoyin Ademola Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie Adewale Obadina Felicia Wu & Nikita Saha Turna   Kini Mycotoxins (maele lati inu elu)? Mycotoxins j ẹ aw ọ n nkan ti o lewu (majele) ti o wa a nipas ẹ ori ṣ iri ṣ i elu(fungi). Majele (mycotoxin) lati inu elu ninu awon ounje wa j ẹ idiwo tabi idena ti o lagbara fun ilera eniyan ati pe agbado j ẹ ọ kan ninu aw ọ n irugbin ti o ni arun yin ni orile ede Naijiria.                           Source: Authors Ọ p ọ l ọ p ọ aw ọ n majele (mycotoxins) w ọ nyi wa, ṣ ugb ọ n aw ọ n meji ni o j ẹ gboogi ti nyo ilera eniyan lenu. Awon mejeji ni aflatoxins ati fumonisins . W ọ n wa nipas ẹ elu ti o je iru tii Aspergillus ati Fusarium .   Kilode ti aw ọ n majele inu elu yi (mycotoxins) lewu? Aw ọ n majele yi (mycotoxins) yi lewu nitori pupo ninu w ọ n ni oro ...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Policy Research Brief 114 January  2019 Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project                                                                                              Figure 1: Students’ most preferred skills after graduation                                                                  By Ayodeji Alexander Ajibola Coker and Balaraba Sule Introduction Africa is the most youthful continent across the globe, with expected rise in youth population in the coming years (Unite...

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  Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project Highlights February 2020 Scholar Program 70 The NAPP Scholars with the Vice Chancellor, IBB University, the Commissioner for Tertiary, the Registrar, Deputy Vice Chancellor IBBU and other members of the School Management. One of the three principal objectives of the Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project (NAPP) is strengthening Nigerian capacity for greater evidence-based policy processes in agriculture. The focus is on increasing the ability of Nigerian analysts to undertake and broadly disseminate relevant evidence-based policy analysis. To do so, it is essential for researchers to acquire the skills to perform vigorous data analysis. To this end, a training on agricultural data analysis using R statistical software was organized for university lecturers by NAPP from Monday 17th to 21st of February 2020. Who better to train than those mandated to teach young researchers the necessary skills for empirical analysis?   R is an open source (fre...

  Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project Highlights November 2019 Scholar Program 63 The visit to the State House Office Building, Lansing, Michigan State to observe proceedings of the House of Representative Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 was an eye opener. The Agriculture Committee is a standing committee of the Michigan House of Representative, made up of 17 members, with over 50% females. The Committee has among other responsibilities the mandate to deliberate on State House legislations and State Senate Agricultural sector related bills, involving appropriation. Request for us to participate in the proceedings with observer status was made prior to the date and granted. Preparatory Legislative activities before the session started were orderly and cordial, with minimal bureaucracy and security checks. Notice of the meeting was circulated through the media, including internet sources. The Agenda was distributed to interested members of the public outside t...

Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project Highlights April 2019 Scholar Program 41 Coming to Michigan State University for the first time as visiting scholars, we deplaned late on January 3 rd 2019. The following morning, January 4th, was our first day at MSU. First thing in the morning we were picked up and whisked away to Morrill Hall of Agricultural to meet the “NAPP team”: Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Oyinkan Tasie and Steve Longabaugh. We were warmly welcomed and given a short orientation course. After the orientation, we eagerly attacked our tasks for the day. Our first port of call was the Hannah Administration building. Here was where I met John Alfred Hannah, the building’s namesake. We learned about this great man and how our MSU adventure related to his vision. It was Hannah’s initiative that started transforming MSU from a Michigan focused undergraduate college (Michigan State College) into a national and internationally research institution (Michigan State University). He opened MSU’...

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy:  Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project March 2019 Blessing Iveren Agada Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State A maize field. Source: Author Soil health is critical for increased crop productivity in Nigeria. Thus, managing your resources very well will help in improving your crop yield now and in the future The productivity of soils in Nigeria, as in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa is very low. This is coupled with increasing high temperatures, soil variability and rainfall variability in intensity and amount. How the soil in your field is managed and the way the amount of chemical fertilizer and organic materials (manure, compost, residues etc.) are used will depend on several factors and cannot be the same for all farmers. Also, it is not enough to just use chemical fertilizer alone if you want to get a good yield   Maize production Because the soil in your field is different from one place to another...