Nigeria Strengthens Global South Cooperation To Advance Agrifood Systems

The Federal Government of Nigeria has reaffirmed beardown committedness to South–South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) successful caller strategy to alteration the agrifood systems and beforehand sustainable improvement done shared expertise, innovation and resources among processing countries.

Speaking astatine the Ministerial Dialogue connected SSTC during the ongoing 2025 World Food Forum successful Rome, Italy, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, said the inaugural remains captious to gathering resilient nutrient systems and fostering inclusive economical maturation crossed the Global South.

He explained that the SSTC model strengthens the corporate bargaining powerfulness of processing nations successful planetary platforms and promotes a much balanced planetary economical order.

According to him, the exemplary has go 1 of the astir applicable and cost-effective approaches for achieving nutrient information and shared prosperity.

The Minister cited Nigeria’s ongoing collaboration with the FAO and China arsenic grounds of the initiative’s impact, noting that the concern has yielded measurable outcomes successful exertion transfer, aquaculture development, husbandman training, and the constitution of Regional Multi-Service Extension Centers crossed the country.

A connection by the ministry’s Head of Information Department, Ezeaja Ikemefuna, said Kyari added that akin partnerships with Brazil and different processing countries proceed to amusement that the Global South possesses the capableness and innovation to flooded its challenges erstwhile agreed successful purpose.

He said Nigeria’s existent absorption is to embed SSTC programmes wrong its National Agrifood Systems Transformation Agenda, ensuring they align with nationalist priorities and present measurable results.

He further emphasised the request to make flexible and sustainable backing mechanisms to grow existing partnerships, beforehand climate-smart and integer agriculture, and fortify mechanization and irrigation systems to boost productivity and resilience.

“The lessons we proceed to gully from our partnerships with China, Brazil, and different processing nations reaffirm that the Global South has the capacity, knowledge, and innovation needed to lick its ain challenges if we enactment unneurotic successful solidarity,’’ he stated.