THE VISION 20:2020 AND FOOD PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW

📄 Project Abstract

The study focuses on the analysis of the interface between the Vision 20:2020 and food production in Nigeria. The thrust of the study however is to find out how the enunciation and implementation of Vision 20:2020 has impacted on food security in Nigeria. Specifically, the study interrogates the impact of the Vision 20:2020 on food importation, production of livestock and fishery as well as crops. Relying on Marxist instrumentalist theory derived from the radical models of economic policy formation which assumes that the state pursues the interest of the capitalist class simply because the state is controlled by this class, the study demonstrates that the cardinal objective of introducing such policy instrument by President Yar'Adua was to safeguard, if not to promote the vested interest of the comprador bourgeoisie by allowing some people within the government to engage in awarding of contracts and procurements of farm implements ostensibly to achieve the goals set out in the Vision 2...