Promoting urban agriculture for sustainable poverty alleviation in Nigeria: Issues for appropriate extension policy

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This paper examines rural-urban migration's impact on agricultural and national development in Nigeria and argues that extension policy has focused primarily on rural agriculture, neglecting urban agriculture's role in poverty alleviation. It recommends that extension agencies organize urban-specific extension services to inform smallholder urban farmers about which food products are in demand in urban areas, without presenting original survey or experimental data.