By implementing these solutions, Nigeria can hope to achieve food security and ensure affordable food for all its citizens.
Nigeria’s Food Crisis: Experts Sound the Alarm and Offer Solutions
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Affordable and healthy eating tips during COVID-19 Pandemic
A publication by the UNICEF to help people cope with the covid-19 Pandemic Fruits, Veggies, and MeatsImage source: www.health.harvard.edu Ideas to Help Your Family Maintain A Nutritious Diet. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak is suspending life for families...
COVID -19 Dialogue – Communique
DANGER OF FOOD CRISIS IN NIGERIA The fear of an impending food crisis prompted SENCE Agric Limited to hold an online town hall meeting on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020. The meeting was to discuss the challenges facing the agriculture sector now and, in the coming months,...
Guidelines For The Implementation Of The ₦50 billion Targeted Credit Facility
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE CBN N50 BILLION TARGETED CREDIT FACILITY? If Not, you are in the right place... According to the CBN,in response to the outbreak and spillovers of the COVID-19,it has issued the implementation of ₦50 billion Targeted Credit Facility for...
Urgent Need to Address the Food Security Implications of COVID-19 on Nigeria
The National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS) and West African Institute for Trade and Agricultural Development (WAITAD) observe that the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic has gradually enveloped the global economy and the populations in fear, resulting in...
NiMet releases 2020 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction
Image Courtesy:NimetImage courtesy:Nimet The Nigerian Meteorological Agency on Tuesday released the 2020 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP) report to guide various sectors of the country. The agency predicted in the SRP Report in Abuja that the onset of the growing...
GOOD NEWS FOR EXPORTERS
WHAT IS THE NEW EU UNFAIR TRADING PRACTICES DIRECTIVE AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT ACP HORTICULTURAL SUPPLIERS? For over 10 years, the European Union have been tasked with ways on how to tackle unfair trading practices in agricultural supply chains. On 10 April 2019,...
Here’s How You Can Curb Tomato Losses
“As the rains pound various parts of the country, many tomato farmers are losing their crop on the farm due to diseases or their produce after harvesting. Hesborn Amukambwa is a seeds agronomist, western region, at Amiran Kenya. He spoke to Elizabeth Ojina on how...
Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI)
The Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) is focused on improving the livelihood and empowering small-scale rice farmers in Sub-Sahara Africa. The selected region includes four African Countries, namely Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania while the...
International Year of Soils
The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2015 the International Year of Soils (IYS) (A/RES/68/232). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has been nominated to implement the IYS 2015, within the framework of the Global Soil Partnership and in...