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(PDF) Enhancing Food Security in Anambra State, Nigeria Using Remote
(PDF) Food Security in Nigeria: An Overview
(PDF) The Right to Food Security in Nigeria
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Food insecurity: global challenges and calls to action
Coronavirus and ensuring food security in Nigeria
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The impact of climate change on food and human security in Nigeria
The reason for food security and human security crises currently faced in Nigeria is not far-fetched; climate has identified by researchers as the subtle causative factor for these (Uwazie, 2020). Persist fall of rainfall gradient in parts of northern Nigeria have increasingly rendered the affected areas unfit for crop and animal production ...
Food loss and waste in Nigeria: Implications for food security and
Flooding reduces food availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability in Nigeria, especially in floodplain regions, by destroying physical infrastructure, interfering with socioeconomic activities related to agriculture, and possibly having an impact on food production (Echendu, 2022, Week and Wizor, 2020).According to the literature, flooding is the most destructive type of weather ...
Factors Affecting Food Security among Households in Nigeria: The Role
4 Food Security Niche Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North West University, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa; [email protected]. * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +234 ...
PDF The Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Food Security in
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA. Aminu M. Nyako, B.S. Thesis Advisor: Adam T. Thomas, Ph.D. ABSTRACT. Poverty and food insecurity in low-income countries are at the heart of the current agenda of the international community.
PDF Food Security in Nigeria: an Overview
Introduction. The above quotation by Nigeria's renowned agricultural economist epitomizes the central argument of this paper that Nigeria's food situation is. 2 Senior Lecturer E-mail: [email protected] Department of History P.M.B. 1515 University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
Demographic considerations and food security in Nigeria
Nigeria's population is approximately 198 million people, making it the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. Currently, according to statistics from the Intelligence Unit of The Economist, Nigeria is ranked at 38 out of 100 according to its food security status. This is illustrated in Fig. 1.
Food loss and waste in Nigeria: Implications for food security and
Food insecurity and climate change are some of humanity's major existing problems. Like many other countries around the world, Nigeria is plagued by hunger and diseases that directly or ...
Multisectoral intervention on food security in complex ...
Sustainable livelihood as an enabler of food security can be constrained by climate variability and violent conflicts, with dire consequences in regions with crude adaptation practices. The effects of such 'complex emergency crises' on food production and livelihoods in Northeast Nigeria impair human security and resilience, particularly, in the Boko Haram ravaged Borno, Yobe and Adamawa ...
The ECOWAS agricultural policy and the quest for food security
1. Introduction. Food and nutrition security issues occupy a central place on the global agenda for sustainable development. Despite global efforts to ensure adequate availability of food for the purpose of ending hunger and improving overall nutrition of the people through the instrumentality of sustainable agricultural practices, food insecurity is still pervasive in Africa.
Policy impacts in dynamic relation to food, income, learning and
Food security in this region of Nigeria is far from stable. The recent upsurge in global hunger data by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been attributed to the restriction of trade and food-producing activities due to the effects of the pandemic (Mardones, 2020).Individuals who are food secure do not live in hunger or fear, thus food insecurity is described as the inability to ...
Oil Dependency and National Food Security: a Case for Nigeria
The food price shocks were part of a greater economic slump beginning in 2014 that. resulted in Nigeria's economy experiencing a recession by 2016 (Afimia, 2017). The exponential rise in food prices were ripple effects of dwindling oil revenue amongst other glaring factors, like. the neglect of the agriculture sector.
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mates that Nigeria's food security situation has worsened in the past 15 years. This thesis ex-amines the impacts of different factors that jeopardize the Nigerian food security situation. Ac-cording to previous literature, there are mostly three factors that affect food security; climate change, economic development, and violent conflict.
Agricultural Policies and Food Security in Nigeria
After that, the concept of food security will be discussed; a definition and different perspectives on achieving food security, the facts and figures of the current situation in Nigeria, and the threats that are looming over Nigeria's food security. Following up on this, the thesis delve into the role of the Nigerian federal government; what
A Proposal for Solving Nigeria's Food Security Challenge: The Nigeria
Important Results It would cost Nigeria ₦158.37 trillion ($393.82 billion or £284.70 billion at ₦402.1361/$ and at ₦556.2601/£ respectively) to fix the weak linkages in its food value ...
Factors Affecting Food Security among Households in Nigeria: The Role
Agriculture is central in order to achieve nutrition goals through the provision of food, energy and essential micronutrients for the physical and mental development of humans. Dietary diversity is a good indicator of human food security status. Using a dataset obtained from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), this paper ...
(Pdf) Climate Change Threat to Food Security in Nigeria: a Consequence
RESEARCH SUBMISSION BEING A PhD THESIS PROPOSED BY DANIEL OCHEJA 1. Research Title CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT TO FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA: A CONSEQUENCE OF PUBLIC POLICY GAPS. 2. Review of Literature Many studies on climate change impact and vulnerabilities have been carried out around the world in general and Nigeria in particular, all in a bid to ...
Gender, Empowerment and Food Security Status of Households in Nigeria
Gender inequality in access to productive and economic resources has been a topical issue in sub-Saharan Africa. The restrictive access to resources, assets and decision making by women has been linked to food insecurity. Using a large cross-sectional dataset from the 2018/2019 Living Standard Measurement Survey, this paper examines the interrelationship among gender, empowerment and ...
PDF FOOD SECURITY STATUS IN NIGERIA
The nutritional problems facing Nigerians was recently captured in a national survey on food security (FOS, 2003). The study revealed that 42%, 9% and 25% of children under - five years old were stunted, wasted and underweight respectively.
(PDF) Food Security In Nigeria: Government's ...
Concerns about food security in Nigeria and indeed Africa has consistently grown in the past decades and has thus become a contemporary issue requiring the urgent attention of government at all levels. ... (eds) (2003). Essays in Nigerian contemporary History. Lagos: first academic publishers Ogwumike F.O. (2004) "An approval of poverty ...
[Pdf] Analysis of Factors Affecting Food Security in Rural and Urban
The study examined factors affecting household food security status among rural and urban farming households of Benue State, Nigeria. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to obtain a sample of 180 respondents, 90 households head each from rural and urban areas. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Food Security ...
Effect of climate change on food security in Nigeria
The public have also been blamed for their contribution to clim ate change that is affecting Food Security. in Nig eria. In th e bid to meet our energy needs Nigerians overdepend on the use of ...
PDF Infrastructural Decay and Food Security in Nigeria
Food security according to Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) (2011) exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for active and healthy life. Thus, to achieve food security in Nigeria is a task that requires a
25 million Nigerians at high risk of food insecurity in 2023
ABUJA, 16 January 2023 - Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food and nutrition analysis carried out twice a year. This is a projected increase from the estimated 17 million people currently at risk of food insecurity.
Nigeria seeks strategic partnership for agribusiness, food security in
Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has reiterated that the Federal Government is dedicated to ensuring food security and fostering the growth of agribusinesses.. This was contained in his remarks at the ongoing US-Africa Business Summit themed "From Food Security to Thriving Agribusiness: The Case for a U.S-Africa Strategic Agribusiness Partnership,"
National Insecurity and the Challenges of Food Security in Nigeria
The picture of Nigeria's f ood and nutrition insecurity has been on worsening trend. According. to FAO et al (2019), bet ween 2004 and 2006, the total number of undernourished Nigerians was. 9.1 ...
Food Security: We will not evict individuals ...
Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, has reassured residents farming on uncultivated government lands that they will not be evicted from such lands
Behind Nigeria's Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request
Mr. Gambaryan has been held in Kuje prison in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, for the last four weeks, after he was transferred there from a government compound on April 8. His case is the latest ...
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The reason for food security and human security crises currently faced in Nigeria is not far-fetched; climate has identified by researchers as the subtle causative factor for these (Uwazie, 2020). Persist fall of rainfall gradient in parts of northern Nigeria have increasingly rendered the affected areas unfit for crop and animal production ...
Flooding reduces food availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability in Nigeria, especially in floodplain regions, by destroying physical infrastructure, interfering with socioeconomic activities related to agriculture, and possibly having an impact on food production (Echendu, 2022, Week and Wizor, 2020).According to the literature, flooding is the most destructive type of weather ...
4 Food Security Niche Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North West University, Mmabatho 2735, South Africa; [email protected]. * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +234 ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA. Aminu M. Nyako, B.S. Thesis Advisor: Adam T. Thomas, Ph.D. ABSTRACT. Poverty and food insecurity in low-income countries are at the heart of the current agenda of the international community.
Introduction. The above quotation by Nigeria's renowned agricultural economist epitomizes the central argument of this paper that Nigeria's food situation is. 2 Senior Lecturer E-mail: [email protected] Department of History P.M.B. 1515 University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
Nigeria's population is approximately 198 million people, making it the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. Currently, according to statistics from the Intelligence Unit of The Economist, Nigeria is ranked at 38 out of 100 according to its food security status. This is illustrated in Fig. 1.
Food insecurity and climate change are some of humanity's major existing problems. Like many other countries around the world, Nigeria is plagued by hunger and diseases that directly or ...
Sustainable livelihood as an enabler of food security can be constrained by climate variability and violent conflicts, with dire consequences in regions with crude adaptation practices. The effects of such 'complex emergency crises' on food production and livelihoods in Northeast Nigeria impair human security and resilience, particularly, in the Boko Haram ravaged Borno, Yobe and Adamawa ...
1. Introduction. Food and nutrition security issues occupy a central place on the global agenda for sustainable development. Despite global efforts to ensure adequate availability of food for the purpose of ending hunger and improving overall nutrition of the people through the instrumentality of sustainable agricultural practices, food insecurity is still pervasive in Africa.
Food security in this region of Nigeria is far from stable. The recent upsurge in global hunger data by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been attributed to the restriction of trade and food-producing activities due to the effects of the pandemic (Mardones, 2020).Individuals who are food secure do not live in hunger or fear, thus food insecurity is described as the inability to ...
The food price shocks were part of a greater economic slump beginning in 2014 that. resulted in Nigeria's economy experiencing a recession by 2016 (Afimia, 2017). The exponential rise in food prices were ripple effects of dwindling oil revenue amongst other glaring factors, like. the neglect of the agriculture sector.
mates that Nigeria's food security situation has worsened in the past 15 years. This thesis ex-amines the impacts of different factors that jeopardize the Nigerian food security situation. Ac-cording to previous literature, there are mostly three factors that affect food security; climate change, economic development, and violent conflict.
After that, the concept of food security will be discussed; a definition and different perspectives on achieving food security, the facts and figures of the current situation in Nigeria, and the threats that are looming over Nigeria's food security. Following up on this, the thesis delve into the role of the Nigerian federal government; what
Important Results It would cost Nigeria ₦158.37 trillion ($393.82 billion or £284.70 billion at ₦402.1361/$ and at ₦556.2601/£ respectively) to fix the weak linkages in its food value ...
Agriculture is central in order to achieve nutrition goals through the provision of food, energy and essential micronutrients for the physical and mental development of humans. Dietary diversity is a good indicator of human food security status. Using a dataset obtained from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA), this paper ...
RESEARCH SUBMISSION BEING A PhD THESIS PROPOSED BY DANIEL OCHEJA 1. Research Title CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT TO FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA: A CONSEQUENCE OF PUBLIC POLICY GAPS. 2. Review of Literature Many studies on climate change impact and vulnerabilities have been carried out around the world in general and Nigeria in particular, all in a bid to ...
Gender inequality in access to productive and economic resources has been a topical issue in sub-Saharan Africa. The restrictive access to resources, assets and decision making by women has been linked to food insecurity. Using a large cross-sectional dataset from the 2018/2019 Living Standard Measurement Survey, this paper examines the interrelationship among gender, empowerment and ...
The nutritional problems facing Nigerians was recently captured in a national survey on food security (FOS, 2003). The study revealed that 42%, 9% and 25% of children under - five years old were stunted, wasted and underweight respectively.
Concerns about food security in Nigeria and indeed Africa has consistently grown in the past decades and has thus become a contemporary issue requiring the urgent attention of government at all levels. ... (eds) (2003). Essays in Nigerian contemporary History. Lagos: first academic publishers Ogwumike F.O. (2004) "An approval of poverty ...
The study examined factors affecting household food security status among rural and urban farming households of Benue State, Nigeria. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were employed to obtain a sample of 180 respondents, 90 households head each from rural and urban areas. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Food Security ...
The public have also been blamed for their contribution to clim ate change that is affecting Food Security. in Nig eria. In th e bid to meet our energy needs Nigerians overdepend on the use of ...
Food security according to Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) (2011) exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for active and healthy life. Thus, to achieve food security in Nigeria is a task that requires a
ABUJA, 16 January 2023 - Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food and nutrition analysis carried out twice a year. This is a projected increase from the estimated 17 million people currently at risk of food insecurity.
Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has reiterated that the Federal Government is dedicated to ensuring food security and fostering the growth of agribusinesses.. This was contained in his remarks at the ongoing US-Africa Business Summit themed "From Food Security to Thriving Agribusiness: The Case for a U.S-Africa Strategic Agribusiness Partnership,"
The picture of Nigeria's f ood and nutrition insecurity has been on worsening trend. According. to FAO et al (2019), bet ween 2004 and 2006, the total number of undernourished Nigerians was. 9.1 ...
Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, has reassured residents farming on uncultivated government lands that they will not be evicted from such lands
Mr. Gambaryan has been held in Kuje prison in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, for the last four weeks, after he was transferred there from a government compound on April 8. His case is the latest ...