Nigeria's Agricultural and Food Security Challenges

Agriculture and Food Security in Nigeria | Human Development - CSIS

Once the primary source of government revenue and foreign exchange earnings, agriculture in Nigeria has suffered from decades of underinvestment, corruption, ...

USAID/Nigeria COVID-19 Food Security Challenge | Innovation

From October 2021 to December 2022, the COVID-19 Food Security Challenge quickly deployed funding to 32 promising Nigerian MSMEs to adapt and scale their ...

25 million Nigerians at high risk of food insecurity in 2023 - Unicef

Continued conflict, climate change, inflation and rising food prices are key drivers of this alarming trend. Food access has been affected by persistent ...

Nigeria | World Food Programme

Nigeria is subject to periodic droughts and floods. This has had an adverse impact on agricultural output and increased the vulnerability of populations, ...

The Challenges of Food Security in Nigeria

Each time a new government takes power, the previous food and agricultural policies are abandoned and new ones are set-up. Unfortunately, there are no ...

Global Food Security Strategy: Nigeria Country Plan - AWS

In Nigeria, there are many constraints to the agriculture and food production systems that present challenges to farmers and exacerbate food insecurity.

UNDERSTANDING FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA ...

Erratic rainfall patterns, increased frequency of droughts, and land degradation have adversely affected agricultural productivity and food production. These ...

Agriculture and food security in Northern Nigeria, Part I

However, climate change has far-reaching impacts on agricultural productivity, posing a threat to food security in Northern Nigeria, the agricultural hub of the ...

Food assistance needs will remain high across northern Nigeria ...

Nigeria faces significant food security challenges exacerbated by escalating conflicts, economic instability, and atypical staple food prices.

Nigeria's food system challenged by conflicts, climate change and ...

Conflict and Insecurity · Climate Change · Economic Challenges · What Can We Do Differently? · Editors' recommendations · Explore further · UNDRR uses ...

NESG Issues a Policy Brief on the Status of Food Security in Nigeria

The number of food-insecure Nigerians increased significantly, from 66.2 million in Q1 2023 to 100 million in Q1 2024 (WFP, 2024), with 18.6 ...

Food Insecurity in Nigeria: Food Supply Matters - IMF eLibrary

Food insecurity is elevated in Nigeria. Using the September 2018 to October 2019 household survey of expenditures, the cost of achieving 2251 ...

Nigeria at a glance | FAO in Nigeria

These include; poor land tenure system, low level of irrigation farming, climate change and land degradation. Others are low technology, high production cost ...

FOOD INSECURITY CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABLE ...

Abstract: The aggregate index of agricultural production in Nigeria which has virtually remained in the hands of small holders has been on the decline.

Nigeria, Climate Change, and the Future of Food

Climate Change and Agricultural Production ... Neither food security nor food imports are new issues in Nigeria. In 2018, an estimated 25 million Nigerians were ...

Agriculture and Food Security | Nigeria - usaid

Agriculture has undoubtedly become the most important sub-sector in the Nigerian economy, next to petroleum. The agriculture sector employs about 70 percent ...

Nigeria - Agriculture Sector - International Trade Administration

Nigeria's agricultural sector has been hurt by several shocks: regular flooding, desertification of crop and grazing land, extremist ...

Fixing Nigeria's food insecurity: challenges and ways forward

... Nigeria's food insecurity. Gain insights from Abdullahi Abubakar of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr ...

Historicizing Nigeria's Agriculture and food Security Challenges

Nigeria is a developing country, with significant population in the rural areas. The agricultural activities, rests on the smallholder farmers who experiences ...

How are floods in Nigeria affecting food security?

Food insecurity is a serious, growing problem in Nigeria. It was reported that 7 out of 10 Nigerians did not have enough to eat in 2021.