Nigeria - Still a net food importer?

The article (at URL following), based on "Food Inequality, Injustice, and Rights," published Feb. 27 in the journal BioScience  reports it has been co-authored by Kyle Davis, a postdoctoral fellow with the Data Science Institute, US. 

https://tinyurl.com/yyd7bsba

It shows a world food map, with net food exporting countries in blue, and net importers in red.

While the study is barely two weeks old, the map however is 2010, nearly a decade ago.

Since then, particularly from 2014 forward, a strong politically led strategy to diversify the import/export equation away from fossil fuels is starting to show fruit.

Light Manufacturing, much of which producing edible intermediate goods or FMCG, is now running at about one third in comparison to primary product exports.

Nigeria, the largest cassava producer globally, produces 160% the capacity of the next highest global performer. Cassava is used to make popular regional food staples such as gari and semo.

It is also the joint second producer of sorghum in the world, though its customers are the internal brewing industries, and therefore represents arable land not being used for food.

While added infrastructure capacity at Eko Atlantic City is surely transforming the Metropolis, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVkphsjh8HI

the decision by APM Terminals to cancel its development of a new port adjacent to the 55km long Lagos-Badagry Expressway is a major blow. They have continued with a similar development at Accra.

The new port was primarily intended to service the country’s non-oil throughput, and was expected to handle annual container traffic expected to grow to ten million TEU by 2030.

However, currently, logistics servicing edible intermediate goods or FMCG Light Manufacturing is fairly asymmetric, with vessels carrying imports returning into the Bight of Benin mostly empty, while independent haulage contractors leaving Nigeria over land often return empty.