This paper provides robust empirical evidence from 1,544 farming households across 25 LGAs in 12 Nigerian states, demonstrating that strengthening human capital, infrastructure, market access, and service provision is the most decisive pathway to building resilience and reducing vulnerability among beneficiaries of agro-allied interventions. The findings are particularly significant because they show that despite extensive investments over the past 25 years, many agricultural projects in Nigeria have failed to deliver targeted goals, underscoring the urgent need for policy and program redesign grounded in building capacity first.
Introduction In today’s complex and dynamic world, understanding the stability and fragility of systems and users is crucial for ensuring resilience and mitigating potential risks. Resilience capacity and vulnerability index are important in measuring the ability of systems and users to withstand and recover from disruptions.
Resilience Capacity Resilience capacity refers to the ability of systems and users to absorb and adapt to disturbances, maintaining their functionality and performance. Resilience capacity has three components (Fig.