Some agriculture experts have called for the appropriate disbursement of the 1.2 billion dollars loan from Brazil to boost Nigeria’s agriculture modernization.
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s Value Chain Development Programme(VCDP) implemented by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has trained 102 private electronic agricultural extension (e-extension) service providers.
he Federal Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development- Value Chain Development Program (IFAD-VCDP), on Tuesday, distributed over N40 million worth of agro input and equipment to rural farmers in Enugu.
The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), has called for the establishment of hatcheries in each geopolitical zones of Nigeria to check the rising cost of day-old chicks.
The Group of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) says African countries need intensive agriculture in order to bridge yield gaps, tackle hunger and attain food sufficiency.
Some agriculture experts have reiterated the importance of soil tests before crop cultivation to boost agro-yields.
The Director General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha says Nigerian farmers must deploy modern scientific and technological tools to increase crop yields, resilience and nutrition.
Professor Gbolagade Ayoola is an obscure personality among the downtrodden Nigerians, the category of people he has doggedly fought for all his life. If Nigeria is a country that recognizes and celebrates heroes and fighters of human rights, Ayoola would have been the Mahatma Gandhi of Nigeria; his portraits and objects immortalizing him would have littered every nook and cranny of Nigeria. Today, we are grateful for Ayoola’s success in drafting the Food Right Act, which allows Nigerians to hold their elected officials accountable and even take them to court if they go hungry. The government is not required to provide food for the people free of charge. However, the government has a constitutional responsibility to formulate and implement policies to ensure all Nigerians’ Right to food and food security. Failure of government policies to guarantee people access to qualitative food empowers the people to take the government into account. It means the government of Nigeria bears legally enforceable obligations to respect, protect, promote, and fulfill the Right to food for citizens based on treaty obligations and existing laws. The Right to food is in tandem with the Right to life, as access to food is necessary for human survival. It is also part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end hunger in all its forms worldwide before the year 2030. Prof. Ayoola resigned from his teaching job at the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, when he realized the enormity of the fight to draft the Right to Food Bill and transform it into an Act.
ASHENEWS reports that the World Index has identified 10 places as world’s most popular food destination for 2024.
The study, published in Nature Food, presents EDGAR-FOOD – the first database to break down emissions from each stage of the food chain for every year from 1990 to 2015. The database also unpacks emissions by sector, greenhouse gas and country.