December 2025 REPURPOSINGPUBLICEXPENDITUREANDPRICEINCENTIVESFOR ANINCLUSIVE,RESILIENT, ANDCOMPETITIVEAGRI-FOOD SECTORINNIGER December 2025 © 2025 The World Bank Group All Rights Reserved This work is a product of the staff of the World Bank Group and the Food and Agriculture Organization.The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect theviews of the World Bank Group, the Food and Agriculture Organization, their Boards of ExecutiveDirectors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank Group and the Food and Agriculture Organization do not guarantee the accuracy,completeness, or currency of the data included in this work and do not assume responsibility forany errors, omissions, or discrepancies in the information or liability with respect to the use of orfailures to use the information, methods, processes, or conclusions set forth. The boundaries, colors,denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgmenton the part of the World Bank Group and the Food and Agriculture Organization concerning the legalstatus of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges andimmunities of the World Bank Group and the Food and Agriculture Organization, whose privileges andimmunities are specifically reserved. Rights and Permissions This work is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO license (VV BY 3.0 IGO)http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0igo. Under the Creative Commons Attribution license,readers are free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt this work, including for commercial purposes,under the following conditions. Attribution- Cite the work as follows: World Bank and FAO. 2025.Repurposing Public Expenditureand Price Incentives for an Inclusive, Resilient, and Competitive Agri-food Sector in Niger.Washington, DCand Rome. All queries on rights and licenses should be addressed to the World Bank Publications, the World BankGroup, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA; fax: 202-522-2422; e-mail:pubrights@worldbank.org. CONTENTS Executive Summary13 1.Introduction23 2.1Brief country and sector context272.2Overviewofagri-foodsectorstrategiesand policies292.3Agriculturalinputpolicies312.4Agriculturalmarketpolicies342.5Agriculturaltradepolicies36 3.Trendsandcompositionofagriculturepublicexpenditure 3.1Levelofagriculturalpublicexpenditure393.2Economiccompositionofagriculturalpublic expenditure423.3Administrativecompositionofagriculturepublic expenditure433.4Functionalcompositionofagriculture-specificpublicexpenditure453.4.1 Publicspendingonirrigationinfrastructure503.4.2 Publicexpenditureonthelivestocksector553.5Progressofthe3NI593.6Agriculturalbudgetexecution60 4.Priceincentiveanalysisforkeycropandlivestockvalue chains63 4.1Priceincentiveanalysisforkeycropvalue chains654.2Priceincentiveanalysisforlivestockvalue chains79 5.Conclusions 81 References 86 Annexes 5.1Annex1.Publicexpenditureanalysis:methodologyanddata925.2Annex2.Priceincentivesanalysis:methodologyanddatasources955.3Annex3.Listofinterviewedinstitutions101 LIST OF FIGURES Figure1:Functionalcompositionofagriculturalpublicexpenditure (actual),average2018–202217Figure2:PerformanceofcerealcropsinNiger29Figure 3: Trends in total PEA by source of financing39Figure4:EconomiccompositionofNiger’sPEAduring2018–202243Figure5:Niger’sPEAbyexecutingunit,average2018–202244Figure6:Functionalcompositionofagriculturalpublicexpenditure (actual),average2018–202246Figure7:ActualPEAtrendsbycategory47Figure 8: Growth of agricultural research and technicalassistance expenditure49Figure9:Evolutionofbudgetaryallocationsandpublicexpenditure for irrigation50Figure10:Cropproductiontrendsinsmall-scaleperimeters(tons)52Figure11:Expansionofirrigationbytype(ha)54Figure12:Numberofcattleandsheep/goatbyregion(2019)56Figure 13: Vaccination coverage rate58Figure 14: Budget execution rate by source of financing61Figure15:ImpactofoverrunsonFER62Figure16:Onionproduction(includingshallots)andexports(tons)66Figure17:NominalRateofProtectionforonion68Figure18:Riceimportsandproduction(tons),andshareofimports in totaldomesticsupply(right axis)69Figure19:NominalRateofProtectionandofAssistanceforrice70Figure20:Totalsupporttoriceproduction71Figure21:MilletNRPinMaradiregion74 Figure22:MilletNRPinZinderregion74Figure23:SorghumNRPinMaradi75Figure24:SorghumNRPinZinder75Figure25:Coveragerateofimprovedseedsneedsformilletand sorghum76Figure26:AveragecowpeaNRP(MaradiandZinderregions)78Figure27:NominalRateofProtectionforcattle80Figure28:NominalRateofProtectionforsheepandgoat80 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Matrix of recommended measures and actions10Table2:ComparisonofNiger’spublicfoodandagriculturalexpenditureswithselectedcountries16Table3:ComparisonofNiger’spublicfoodandagriculturalexpenditureswithselectedcountries40Table4:Resourcesmobilizedfortheimplemen