National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAdebayo Ogunniyi: 0000-0001-9537-9743
cg.creator.identifierSuresh Chandra Babu: 0000-0002-8706-2516
cg.creator.identifierBedru B. Balana: 0000-0002-7344-5743
cg.creator.identifierKwaw Andam: 0000-0002-4138-1693
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133811en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Director General's Office
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Nigeria Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1951en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorOgunniyi, Adebayoen
dc.contributor.authorBabu, Suresh Chandraen
dc.contributor.authorBalana, Bedruen
dc.contributor.authorAndam, Kwaw S.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:54Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:54Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143533
dc.titleNational extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeriaen
dcterms.abstractAgricultural extension plays a number of important roles in the growth and transformation of the agricultural sector, including improving agricultural productivity and food security and reducing hunger and malnutrition. Extension programs and interventions that will achieve significant impacts in terms of behavior and practice changes, as well as agricultural productivity increase, will succeed as a result of suitable policy formulation and an effective implementation process. Ultimately, agricultural extension reform requires policy vision and determination and a state-level strategy that can be implemented. This paper documents issues, challenges, constraints, and potential solutions and opportunities in implementing the national extension policy (NEP) at the state level in Nigeria, using Cross River State as a case study. We use both quantitative and qualitative methods, in the form of descriptive statistical analysis and an inclusive consultative process with a focus on the multistakeholder participatory model, respectively. The descriptive results show that, generally, there is low access to agricultural extension service across commodities and their respective values chains in Cross River State. We also document interesting insights from the multistakeholder consultative process. We find that collaboration and partnership between private and public extension service providers is key to developing a sustainable extension, advisory, and support service in Cross River State. We also found that coordination and standardization of the activities of the extension service providers is a way to avoid pollution of the agricultural innovation system in the state. Funding of extension services is another important factor affecting the effective implementation of the NEP. We therefore suggest that agricultural extension services can be funded through decentralization, involvement of farmers’ associations and nongovernmental organizations, contracting out of extension services, public-private partnerships, privatization, and embedding advisory services in other types of contracts. The results of this study further validate our approach of using multistakeholder engagement at the state level as an effective and insightful method of implementing the NEP at the state level.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOgunniyi, Adebayo; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Balana, Bedru; and Andam, Kwaw S. 2020. National extension policy and state-level implementation: The case of Cross River State, Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1951. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133811.en
dcterms.extent43 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2020-05-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142546en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133734en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133615en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133780en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143837en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.17159/2413-3221/2019/v47n1a485en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-020-0190-yen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133811en
dcterms.subjectextension programmesen
dcterms.subjectimplementationen
dcterms.subjectextension policiesen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectmulti-stakeholder processesen
dcterms.subjectdecentralizationen
dcterms.subjectqualitative analysisen
dcterms.subjectfederalismen
dcterms.subjectquantitative analysisen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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