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Abstract
This study highlights on the sustainable issues and agricultural
development in Nigeria by looking at the theory of natural resources’
scarcity and its effects on growth and partly, on the principles of natural
resources conservation. The environmental impact of continued
population growth is felt through increase in energy demand,
production, consumption and waste. Currently, Nigeria loses about
351,000ha of land to desert encroachment advancing southwards at
the rate of an average 8km per annum. Bilateral relationships between
poverty and environment were analyzed for understanding the real
meaning of a sustainable human development approach. Sustainable
development has currently come to the forefront of development
studies. Linking rural economy, poverty and environmental
degradation appears to incorporate the needs and aspirations of a
developing country like Nigeria. The paper further examined the
concepts of agricultural resources, and of agricultural hybridization
of institutions, knowledge, methods and hybrids as means of
juxtaposing conventional and traditional systems in agriculture. Thus,
strong political commitments, will power and consistency in policy
planning and implementation, are some of the means of improving
and stabilizing both agriculture and the environment.