EOA-Initiative Nigeria Pillar 1 Report

Country Lead Organization	Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria
Pillar Implementing Partners	Western Region	Northern Region	Eastern Region
Research Training and Extension	University of Ibadan	Kwara State University	Nnamdi Azikwe University

Major Achievement	Lessons Learned	Major Challenges
A monograph on the application of local knowledge to the development of EOA and Basics and Principles of Organic Livestock and Aquaculture in the Tropics were published	Major issues identified during gap analysis are weed, pest & disease control	The bureaucracy involved in fund release and retirement by University of Ibadan makes it difficult to work according to timeline

Two repositories on organic researches were developed and share to strategic stakeholders.	Majority of the producers yet to engage in value addition to their produce.	A few African based empirical data on organic agriculture for documentation

The initiative has successfully supported two Masters Dgree programmes in Agricultural Extension, while support for a Ph.D is ongoing	Simple farm machineries particularly for value addition are also limiting	Majority of the researcher and policy officer equate organic agriculture for organic fertilizer.

A curriculum for capacity building in tertiary institutions developed with relevant agencies involved in the coordination of tertiary education successfully lobbied. Editorials on the relevance of integrating EOA into tertiary educational system was published in a national daily where stakeholders opined further integration of some component in primary and secondary curricula	Majority of the farmers practicing EOA are small scale farmers	The technical man power required for the development of the sector in limiting.