Food Security

The Government of the United States has said that it has invested about $200 million in Nigeria's agriculture sector in the last five years, to improve food security and build household resilience to shocks. This is just as the…

The Nigerian Senate has reacted to the killing of 16 soldiers in Okuoma community, Ughelli South Local Government in Delta State, demanding justice. The upper chamber through the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Nigerian Army, Abdulaziz…

United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, will announce a £67.9 million new package to support and make Nigeria’s agriculture sector more climate resilient during his four-day African visit. James Cleverly’s trip to Nigeria…

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the release of fertilizer to farmers for the cultivation of more produce and grains for poor households as part of measures under the state of emergency declared on Thursday to enhance the nation's food…

The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has launched the Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) programme designed to end food insecurity, improve export earnings, and create jobs and other…

In spite of the huge financing of the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), a couple of problems are frustrating the project and invariably narrowing the country's path to food sufficiency. In an attempt to address the problems of…

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to develop guidelines for Africa in the agriculture sector to bridge the gap between the public and private sector. Stephanie Gallatova, FAO Agribusiness Officer, said Public, Private…

The FADAMA III Second Additional Financing (AFII) Programme has called on beneficiary states in the North East Food Security and Livelihood Emergency Support Project to pay their counterpart funds. Mr Ibrahim Alkali, North East Desk…

By: BARBARA BAKO, Abuja. Nigeria may soon achieve its aim in food security following the decision of the Nigerian Incentive Based Risk Sharing System For Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) to support half a mullion Farmers to cultivate…

Leader of the UN Organisation's  Mechanization task team,  Josef Kienzle said this during the second conservation agriculture conference in Nairobi. Kienzle who made this observation,  has said unless African governments adopt new farming…