Digitalization of Agrifood Systems event promotes constructive dialogue and exchanges of best practices to enhance the digital potential of agriculture The capacity and potential of digital technologies to help solve many complex problems in our agrifood systems came under the spotlight at a special event of the World Food Forum’s Science and Innovation Forum. The […]
Also, at the weekend, Nigeria was ranked 103 out of 121 countries in the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI), a position that signifies the nation has a level of hunger that is serious. The Global Hunger Index was jointly published by the German-based Welthungerhilfe and Dublin-based Concern Worldwide on Saturday to mark World Food Day. […]
World Food Day: Why Nigeria may not attain food sufficiency target As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark World Food Day, stakeholders in the agriculture sector have expressed fear that Nigeria may further suffer a setback in her quest for food sufficiency. They claimed that the impact of the crisis in Russia/Ukraine, […]
DELTA State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on Nigerians, particularly Deltans to invest more in agriculture as a way to curb rising food insufficiency in Nigeria and create job opportunities and economic development for the people. Okowa made the call after inspecting Oil Palm Plantation and Refinery under construction at Akwukwu-Igbo, Oshimili North Local […]
Stakeholders have called for the creation of a favorable policy environment to enhance private sector investment in research to boost the agriculture sector and guarantee food security. They argued that policies like tax holidays, favorable tariff regimes, accelerated mechanization, and irrigation programs among others were pathways to achieving agricultural development. Chief Executive Officer, of the […]
The Canadian government has partnered with the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on food security and humanitarian assistance in Borno State. According to the organization, the partnership hopes to raise food security, mindful of the 13-year conflict that has displaced over 2.5 million people in the Northeast. Unveiling the initiative, yesterday, in […]
The continued rejection of Nigeria’s food exports to foreign countries shows that Nigerian government workers are simply not doing their work. Those who are supposed to supervise governance and ensure that government policies are efficiently implemented are also not doing their work. Way back in October 2017, former Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, had publicly […]
The number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide is expected to continue to rise precipitously, as the food crisis tightens its grip on 19 ‘hunger hotspots’ – driven by rising conflict, weather extremes, and economic instability aggravated by the pandemic and the ripple effects of the crisis in Ukraine, a joint UN report released […]
The UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative is reintegrating much-needed grains into global markets and contributing to bringing down prices of basic staples across the world. The agreement was signed in Istanbul by the Russian Federation, Türkiye, Ukraine, and the United Nations on 22 July 2022 to help stabilize spiraling food prices worldwide and prevent a […]
