From time immemorial, agriculture was Nigeria’s economic mainstay, however, overtime, agriculture has been relegated to the background for obvious reasons, it’s on record that Nigeria’s endowment with vast natural resources of arable land from the stretch of savanna grassland, the dense swamp and rainforest, the untapped and unhannessed abundant quantities of solid minerals almost all over the country have either been misused or put to abandonment over the years.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF), and the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have launched a $100 million financing initiative to support ongoing efforts to improve food security in Africa and make the continent the world’s major food producer.
The Nigerian government has disclosed that the country’s food importation increased by 80% between 2019 to 2023.
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Environment are partnering to recover 350,000 hectares of degraded landscapes for environmental sustainability in the country.
When a friend read the list of agriculture-related products among the 43 items that can be imported using the country’s meagre foreign reserves, he quipped, “Nigeria bade farewell to national food security.”
The Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Dr. QU Dongyu says governments need to prioritise water in policy and planning, across sectors and along the water-food-energy ecosystem.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have expressed their readiness to partner to check and control the spread of Anthrax disease in the country.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Friday said that World food prices declined for the 12th consecutive month in March.
ASHENEWS reports that the World Bank Group (WBG), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the World Food Programme (WFP) have called for continued urgent action to address the global food security crisis.
With global prices of food and fertilizers already reaching worrying highs, the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s…