Policy makers in numerous developing nations frequently employ food self-sufficiency as a growth/development and anti-poverty strategy in an effort to propel their nations towards food independence. As an illustration, the Nigerian government implemented a prohibition on rice imports from 1986 to 1995 with the objective of augmenting domestic rice production and progressively attaining rice self-sufficiency. In Nigeria, such import restrictions were periodically reinstated over the past several decades. Do you believe that rice import bans and other import restrictions effectively reduce poverty and raise the standard of living in developing nations? Why?