Essays written 1973-2000, most previously published in journals or as chapters in books published in Nigeria and elsewhere.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. The agricultural policy process. Agricultural policy process in Africa : role of policy analysts -- Food policy in Nigeria : towards a framework of analysis -- Food for all Nigerians : is there hope? -- Desirable and workable agricultural policies for Nigeria in the first decade of the twenty first century -- State-federal relations in Nigeria agriculture -- Some considerations on economic aspects of a national food and nutrition policy for Nigeria -- Nigeria's Green Revolution programme : pitfalls of public policy -- Self-reliance as a strategy for Nigerian agriculture : cornucopia or Pandora's box? -- Food production plan for Nigeria, 1981-85 -- Priorities for Nigerian agriculture in the fifth national development plan 1986-90 -- The political economy of Nigeria's Green Revolution programme -- The philosophical foundations of economic restructuring and growth -- Policy research in agriculture : the view of a policy analyst -- Policy options for African agriculture -- The 'demonstration effect' of farm institutes and settlements : theory and evidence.

v. 2. Commodity taxes and farm input subsidies. Farm input subsidies for the Green Revolution in Nigeria : lessons from experience -- Pesticide input subsidies in African agriculture : the Nigerian experience -- Marketing board crop taxation and input subsidies : a second-best approach -- Econometric estimation of input demand functions in developing agriculture : the case of pesticides in Ondo, Oyo and Ogun States of Nigeria -- Policy distortions, subsidies and rural employment generation : a second-best approach -- Revenue potentials of tax on marketing board crops -- Statistical evidence on tax revenue instability in Nigeria -- Estimation of sales elasticities of marketing board crops -- Revenue instability in developing countries : the Ghanaian experience -- Supply response of upland in Ogun State of Nigeria : a producer panel approach -- Input and output marketing systems : a Nigerian case -- Marketing boards as potential stabilizers of government revenues in developing countries : the Nigerian experience -- A farm input subsidy policy for the Green Revolution programme in Nigeria.

v. 3. Agricultural research, uncertainty and diversification. Agricultural resource allocation priorities : the Nigerian experience -- Agricultural research in Nigeria : organization and policy -- Strengthening the stability of national agricultural research systems (NARS): lessons from Nigeria -- The role of the agricultural development projects (ADPs) in Nigeria's agricultural development strategy -- The role of the agricultural development projects (ADPs) in Nigeria's quest for food self-sufficiency -- Rural infrastructures and the small farmers -- The Green Revolution : goals for and constraints on agricultural development in the 1980s -- Rural development in Nigeria : foundations of sustainable economic development -- Sustainability issues in agricultural development -- human capital and African agricultural development -- Instability and diversification of foreign exchange earnings : the African experience -- Uncertainty, instability and diversification of foreign exchange earnings in West African international trade -- Nigerian exports and food crops instability : new measures and evidence -- Economic structure and public revenue instability : the Nigerian and Ghanaian experiences -- The analysis of buffer fund price stabilization by export monopoly marketing agencies in developing countries : a comment -- Commodity boards in Nigeria : a crisis of identity -- Agricultural research staff instability : the Nigerian experience.

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