The fact that hunger is destroying the Country is infuriating and frustrating. The cost of a 50 kg bag of rice has skyrocketed, ranging from 60 to 77k, out of reach for the average Nigerian.
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The UN is proposing a ‘roadmap’ for food and farming to end hunger and slash greenhouse gas emissions. While the goals are commendable, are the shifts suggested by the FAO the real deal – or just pie in the sky? Here are five tests.
Some citizens are taking to the street to protest against some government policies which they allege are exacerbating hunger. What started in Minna, Niger, has spread to Ibadan, Lagos Osun and Kano.
ASHENEWS reports that smallholder business women and men in Sokoto state have revealed that several households are currently grappling with the daily increase of essential food items, a situation that has plunged countless households into a financial and dietary crisis.
Nigeria faces a complex web of challenges including hunger, deprivation, and conflict, all of which are interconnected and exacerbate one another. This nexus presents a significant obstacle to the country’s development and stability.
Northern Nigeria’s response to the food crisis has been to play the ostrich and effectively act the role of the Dog in this time of famine. This, it is doing by stylishly and selfishly ethnicising the food crisis situation. The North’s stand is always predictably selfish, as if it is destined to go the way of the self, as against the collective.
Marka Abass, Bauchi State Coordinator of Small-Scale Women Farmers of Nigeria SWOFON, stresses the dynamic role of empowering rural women…
The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments.
ASHENEWS reports that the global roadmap released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says that an estimated 590.3 million will suffer hunger by 2030.
An agricultural expert in Uganda, stunned a farmers’ conference in the capital Kampala recently, when he revealed that nowadays most homesteads have no fires nor smokes during the day, because people are not cooking due to acute food shortages.