Nigerians in poverty consume little wheat and wheat self-sufficiency programmes will not protect them from price shocks related to the Russia–Ukraine conflict

The Russia–Ukraine conflict has prompted calls for resource diversification and wheat self-sufficiency programmes in import-dependent regions. Here we show that this approach would have minimal impact on poor Nigerians as wheat constitutes only 4% of their total food consumption and 8% of their starchy staple consumption. In contrast, millets, rice, cassava and tubers are ten times more important—highlighting the need for careful consideration of country-context consumption patterns in response to external food system shocks

PIVOTING IN NIGERIA’S FISH AND POULTRY VALUE CHAINS IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 POLICIES AND IMPACTS

This report uses a panel dataset from two phone surveys covering February–October 2020 and March– July 2021, with nearly 500 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the fish and poultry value chains of eight states in all six of Nigeria’s geopolitical zones. We address three empirical gaps in the knowledge of the impacts of COVID-19 and containment policies on enterprises in these value chains