Martina Centre for Sustainable Development
Land Use and Agricultural Development Schemes
In areas of agricultural production, primitive farming methods has meant a rapid loss of soil fertility and poor returns. With the high level of poverty, low income and increasingly high cost of farm inputs, it will become more and more difficult for productivity to increase; hence the need for an urgent and detailed study of the agricultural practices of the Middle Belt area of Nigeria which has remained the food basket of the Nation. Martina Centre has been working with various National and International Agencies with a view to improving this situation. Hence, the introduction of our Land Use and Agricultural development Schemes supported with Micro Credit facilities to identified farming communities.
For the rest of Nigeria, MARTINA CENTRE has been working and investigating such critical issues as the National Debt, Insecurity, the necessity and consequence of various structural adjustment programs as well as role and place of Nigeria in a changing world. Equally, MARTINA CENTRE has been encouraging discussion on the new directions in development paradigm, especially, the “Sustainable Human Development” concept being promoted by the United Nations agencies. Research on the Middle-Belt Region has always been conducted with sustainable Human
For the rest of Nigeria, MARTINA CENTRE has been working and investigating such critical issues as the National Debt, Insecurity, the necessity and consequence of various structural adjustment programs as well as role and place of Nigeria in a changing world. Equally, MARTINA CENTRE has been encouraging discussion on the new directions in development paradigm, especially, the “Sustainable Human Development” concept being promoted by the United Nations agencies. Research on the Middle-Belt Region has always been conducted with sustainable Human
Rice and Corn Production farm supported by our Microfinance Scheme
Development in mind. It is also for this reason that studies conducted by MARTINA CENTRE are gender sensitive so as to bring into sharper focus the differential impacts of policy on various group and sexes. There is a deliberate bias for women studies for obvious reasons.
