Transforming livestock sector: Nigeria

Abstract

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously urban, socio-economic, policy and technological transitions. These rapid transitions will have major implications for the African agricultural sector. Consumers will move away from a predominantly cereal-based diet towards the so-called 'Livestock revolution', which will affect the development of African livestock in the coming decades. This note presents long-term projections of key socio-economic and livestock-related variables for Nigeria, for the period 2015-2050, as estimated by the FAO Global Perspective Studies Team under a business as usual development trajectory.