UN, India, Nigeria move to tackle food insecurity

By Laolu Elijah

IBADAN— THE Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, Indians and Nigerians person converged connected the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA, to manner retired ways to cheque nutrient insecurity successful the country.

The workshop, held astatine IITA, Ibadan, featured intensive discussions by experts connected improving nutrient and nutrition security, arsenic good arsenic creating much employment and income opportunities for Nigerians.

The FAO Representative successful Nigeria and to ECOWAS, Dr. Hussein Gadain, portion presenting his code astatine the India-Nigeria aquaculture cognition speech workshop, said: “With astir 60% of households experiencing nutrient insecurity, Nigeria spends implicit $1 cardinal annually connected food imports to conscionable home demand. The fisheries subsector contributes betwixt 3–5 percent to the nationalist GDP, and food provides astir 50 percent of the carnal macromolecule consumed successful the country—highlighting its captious relation successful nationalist nutrition and nutrient systems.

“Nigeria’s yearly food request is estimated astatine 3.6 cardinal metric tons, leaving a accumulation shortage of 2.4 cardinal metric tons. Bridging this spread is not lone an economical necessity but besides a nutritional priority.”

Also speaking, the Worldfish state representative, Dr Charles Iyangbe, said: “India and Nigeria stock overmuch successful common. They are dynamic nations with immense populations, increasing nutrient demands.

, and affluent aquatic resources. “Yet, we besides stock the pressing situation of ensuring that these resources are harnessed sustainably, equitably, and successful a mode that builds resilience for the future.”

According to him, WorldFish, a non-profit planetary probe and innovation organization, is dedicated to harnessing the imaginable of aquatic foods to nourish people, boost incomes, and reconstruct ecosystems.

On his part, National Project Coordinator, Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises-Niger Delta, Dr Abiodun Sanni, pointed retired that a batch needs to beryllium done to trim nutrient insecurity, particularly successful aquaculture, by bringing down the outgo of feeds and producing feeds that are cost-effective.

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