THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON NIGERIAN RURAL-AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY

Hussaini Shehu

Abstract


Globalization in the pass decades has done significant impact on the agricultural as well as the economic sector of the third world nations particularly Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populous African Nation with the population of over 140 million according to the 2006 population census. Considering its position in Africa occupying number one position in terms of economic growth and development, over 52.7 percent of the nation population is living in rural areas and produced 90 percent of the food consumed. It is pertinent that any policy that would be introduced must positively have impact on these majority rural dwellers. Globalization has both negative and positive impact, to some, the changes are beneficial while to others are harmful. It eased international trade and commerce, facilitated foreign investment and the flow of capital. It also led to the cultural diffusion and the spread of new ideas and values, therefore it creates a global village out of the larger world. Despite these positive changes so introduced it neglects the African Nations in the political sphere to the extent that they have less control of their economies and fiscal matters as a result of the imposition of the policies by the International Monitory Fund (IMF) World Bank and World Trade Organization (WTO) among which Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) have impacted the Nigerian rural economy which might be considered as the extension of neocolonialism. Illicit and drug trafficking of children and women, facilitate brain drain because of the free labour policy. The entire domestic agricultural sector is affected due to the importation of foreign mechanized and subsidized farm produced from the develop countries which make it difficult for them to compute in Nigerian market.

 

Article visualizations:

Hit counter

DOI

Keywords


globalization, economy, agriculture, poverty, rural area

Full Text:

PDF

References


Abegunrin, O. (2003). Nigerian Foreign Policy under Military Rule, 1966-1999. Praeger; Westport, Connecticut, London.

Aderonke, M. & Adejuwon, K. D. (2012). Globalization and African Political Economy: The Nigerian Experience. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences,2(8), 189-206.

Adesina, O. S. (22012). The Negative Impact of Globalization on Nigeria. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2(15), 193-201.

Ayenagbo, K. et-al. (2012). The impact of globalization on African countries economic development. African Journal of Business Management, 6 (44), 11057-11076. Retrieve from http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM

Bigman, D. (Ed.) (2004). Globalization and the Developing Countries: Emerging Strategies for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QKFCo5ajRCcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=impact+of+globalization+on+rural+agriculture+in+Nigeria&ots=ss1Kzg7Y1P&sig=Z8usFZ6ruZSC1RfREbNpdaSiDNQ#v=onepage&q=impact%20of%20globalization%20on%20rural%20agriculture%20in%20Nigeria&f=false

CIA World Fact Book, (2014). Sky horse publishing. Inc 2013 ISBN 978-1-62636-073-0

Etemike, L. & Efanodor, O.H. (2015).Contemporary Globalization and the Rural Economy in Nigeria. American International Journal of Social Science, 4(3), 14-27.

The CIA World Fact Book. (2014). Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 2013.ISBN 978-1-62636-073-0.

Etemike, Contemporary Globalization and the Rural Economy in Nigeria

Hofstede et al, (2010). Cultures and organizations: Software of the Mind: Intercultural Cooperation and its Importance for Survival. 3rd Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Ibrahim, A.A. (2013). The Impact of Globalization on Africa. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 3(15), 85-93.

IFAD. (2009). Nigeria Country Programme Evaluation. Federal Republic of Nigeria. Retrieved from https://www.ifad.org/en/web/ioe/evaluation/asset/39831395

Ileso, B.S. (2000). Structural Adjustment and Agricultural Production in Nigeria (1970-1996). (Master’s Thesis), Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia.

International Organization for Migration, (2016).Migration in Nigeria: A Country Profile (2014). Retrieved from https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mp_nigeria.pdf

Lambi, et al. (2001). The Causes of Land use and cover change: moving beyond the myths. Global Environmental Change, 11(2001), 261-269.

Mulinge, M. & Munyae, M. (2091). Globalization and sustainable Development in Africa: Putting Old Wine in a New Wineakin?

Mellor, J. (2002). The Impacts of Globalization on the Role of Agriculture. The Expert Consultation on Trade and Food Security: Conceptualizing the Linkage.

National Population Commission, (2017).Nigeria Current Estimate Population.2017 National Population Commission (NPopC). Retrieve from http://population.gov.ng/

Nsehe, O. U. (2017). Globalization: Its Impact on Nigeria’s Economy and Implication on National Development. (Bachelor Thesis), School of Business and Governance Department of Law, Tallinn University of Technology.

Nwokah, N. & Adiele, K. (2015). The Socio-economic Impact of Globalization in Nigeria. Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, 6(10), 238-246.

Reardon, T. Stamouliis, K & Pingali, P. (2007).Rural Nonfarm Employment in Developing Countries in Era of Globalization. Agricultural Economics, 37(0), 173=183.

Steve, S. & John, B. (Eds.) (1997).The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford: University Press.

Skeldon, R. (2013). United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs, (2013). Global Migration: Demographic Aspects and its Relevance for Development. Population Division, Technical Paper no.6.

Ugwu, D. S., & Akwuwa, C.U. (2006). Effects of Globalization on the Agricultural Sector of the Nigerian Economy. Sustainable Human Development Review, 1(2), 59-77.

United Nations Trade and Development Report (2015). United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva. Retrieve from http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/tdr2015_en.pdf

Verter, B. C. N., (2015).The Impact of Globalization on the Socio-Economic Development in Nigeria, (PGD Thesis), Department of Territorial Studies, Mendel University in Brno.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v0i0.423

Copyright (c) 2018 Hussaini Shehu

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The research works published in this journal are free to be accessed. They can be shared (copied and redistributed in any medium or format) and\or adapted (remixed, transformed, and built upon the material for any purpose, commercially and\or not commercially) under the following terms: attribution (appropriate credit must be given indicating original authors, research work name and publication name mentioning if changes were made) and without adding additional restrictions (without restricting others from doing anything the actual license permits). Authors retain the full copyright of their published research works and cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms are followed.

Copyright © 2016 - 2023. European Journal Of Social Sciences Studies (ISSN 2501-8590) is a registered trademark of Open Access Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) serial number certificate issued by Romanian National Library. All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms. All the research works published on this journal are meeting the Open Access Publishing requirements and standards formulated by Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002), the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) and  Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) and can be freely accessed, shared, modified, distributed and used in educational, commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyrights of the published research works are retained by authors.