Essays written 1973-2000, most previously published in journals or as chapters in books published in Nigeria and elsewhere.

v. 1. The agricultural policy process. Agricultural policy process in Africa : role of policy analysts -- Food policy in Nigeria : towards a framework of analysis -- Food for all Nigerians : is there hope? -- Desirable and workable agricultural policies for Nigeria in the first decade of the twenty first century -- State-federal relations in Nigeria agriculture -- Some considerations on economic aspects of a national food and nutrition policy for Nigeria -- Nigeria's Green Revolution programme : pitfalls of public policy -- Self-reliance as a strategy for Nigerian agriculture : cornucopia or Pandora's box? -- Food production plan for Nigeria, 1981-85 -- Priorities for Nigerian agriculture in the fifth national development plan 1986-90 -- The political economy of Nigeria's Green Revolution programme -- The philosophical foundations of economic restructuring and growth -- Policy research in agriculture : the view of a policy analyst -- Policy options for African agriculture -- The 'demonstration effect' of farm institutes and settlements : theory and evidence.

v. 2. Commodity taxes and farm input subsidies. Farm input subsidies for the Green Revolution in Nigeria : lessons from experience -- Pesticide input subsidies in African agriculture : the Nigerian experience -- Marketing board crop taxation and input subsidies : a second-best approach -- Econometric estimation of input demand functions in developing agriculture : the case of pesticides in Ondo, Oyo and Ogun States of Nigeria -- Policy distortions, subsidies and rural employment generation : a second-best approach -- Revenue potentials of tax on marketing board crops -- Statistical evidence on tax revenue instability in Nigeria -- Estimation of sales elasticities of marketing board crops -- Revenue instability in developing countries : the Ghanaian experience -- Supply response of upland in Ogun State of Nigeria : a producer panel approach -- Input and output marketing systems : a Nigerian case -- Marketing boards as potential stabilizers of government revenues in developing countries : the Nigerian experience -- A farm input subsidy policy for the Green Revolution programme in Nigeria.

v. 3. Agricultural research, uncertainty and diversification. Agricultural resource allocation priorities : the Nigerian experience -- Agricultural research in Nigeria : organization and policy -- Strengthening the stability of national agricultural research systems (NARS): lessons from Nigeria -- The role of the agricultural development projects (ADPs) in Nigeria's agricultural development strategy -- The role of the agricultural development projects (ADPs) in Nigeria's quest for food self-sufficiency -- Rural infrastructures and the small farmers -- The Green Revolution : goals for and constraints on agricultural development in the 1980s -- Rural development in Nigeria : foundations of sustainable economic development -- Sustainability issues in agricultural development -- human capital and African agricultural development -- Instability and diversification of foreign exchange earnings : the African experience -- Uncertainty, instability and diversification of foreign exchange earnings in West African international trade -- Nigerian exports and food crops instability : new measures and evidence -- Economic structure and public revenue instability : the Nigerian and Ghanaian experiences -- The analysis of buffer fund price stabilization by export monopoly marketing agencies in developing countries : a comment -- Commodity boards in Nigeria : a crisis of identity -- Agricultural research staff instability : the Nigerian experience.