Multi-stakeholder process strengthens agricultural innovations and sustainable livelihoods of farmers in Southern Nigeria

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

“…The content of the national extension policy (NEP) is well articulated and aims at transforming agricultural extension in Nigeria, but a pertinent question to ask is: how workable and operative are the nationally oriented policies at the state level? The setbacks and limitations of top-down national planning in agriculture have become progressively clearer, and it has been more extensively acknowledged that, if the policies are to succeed, stakeholders at many levels (such as the public sector, private sector, civil society, researchers, youth and women representatives, and other developmental stakeholders) must play a more determining role in their design and implementation mechanisms (Brancalion et al 2016;Hermans et al 2017;Sartas et al 2018;Bisseleua et al 2018;Faure et al 2019).…”

National extension policy and state level implementation: The case of Niger State in Nigeria

“…To address issues at the institutional level, we conduct an institutional analysis and at the individual level we conduct an individual capacity analysis. In order to produce coherent, integrated and efficient outcomes on the institutional analysis, we adopted the multi-stakeholder consultation forum as recommended by previous studies (Adekunle and Fatunbi 2012;Schut et al 2015;Bisseleua et al, 2018). Multi-stakeholder institutional analysis mechanisms provide a venue for us to integrate pluralist inputs into policy formulation and implementation trajectories.…”

“…In this paper, using Niger state as a case study, we show that development of this process will have implications for the development of the agricultural extension programs at the state levels. Multi-stakeholder processes (MSP) are increasingly seen as a promising vehicle for agricultural innovation and operative implementation of national policies at the state level in developing countries (Hemmati et al, 2002;Adekunle and Fatunbi 2012;Schut et al 2015;Bisseleua et al, 2018). Public sector, private sector, civil society, researchers and the other developmental stakeholders need each other to achieve the expected and desired impact at scale (Schut et al 2015;Bisseleua et al, 2018).…”

Understanding the role of finance in technology adoption among smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria

“…If this trend persists, Nigeria will have to rely on maize importation to meet its demand. Poor maize yield has been attributed to factors such as poor crop management systems (Olaniyan, 2015), poor soil fertility (Raimi et al, 2017), poor climate (Ogbodo et al, 2018), availability of labour (Bisseleua et al, 2018) and the lack of support services (Oyinbo et al, 2019). In addition to these factors, low technology adoption has also been identified as a significant factor in the stagnation of smallholder maize yield in Nigeria (United States Department of Agriculture, 2020).…”