Nigeria needs to improve the productivity of its farmers, end insecurity that's kept farmers away from cultivation, and invest in agro-processing to tame high food prices and return lost spending power to its over 200 million citizens, Mathew Verghis, the World Bank’s country director for Nigeria,
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