{"id":41902,"date":"2021-03-31T10:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41902"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:34:33","slug":"about-230m-people-in-sub-saharan-africa-face-chronic-food-insecurity-nigerias-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=41902","title":{"rendered":"About 230m people in Sub-Saharan Africa face chronic food insecurity \u2013Nigeria\u2019s Finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Minister-of-Finance-Zainab-Ahmed\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has raised the alarm that the food situation in Nigeria and other African countries were unsustainable, noting that about 230 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa were still prone to chronic food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the ongoing virtual World Bank-IMF 2021 Spring Meetings Roundtable on \u2018Food Security In Africa<\/a>\u2019, she said Nigeria has faced critical challenges both in the upstream and downstream agricultural sectors, in her drive for food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmed said the Nigerian government strongly believes that it was time to change the global support to commercial agriculture, given the quantum of arable land in Africa, and stressed the need for the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the agriculture value chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, she said the Nigerian government has instituted the necessary macroeconomics and fiscal reforms, to strengthen governance and institutions, and is prioritising intra-African trades, as well as structural reforms and public investments to address the challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the global level, Ahmed called for an integrated, targeted and well-coordinated approach that would guarantee food security, noting that a robust and secured food system was central to the health of both humans and the economies of nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, she invited international communities, particularly the multilateral and private sector, to key in and to assist Africa to build food resilience and pursue the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the goals of the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current food situation is far from achieving the goal of feeding everyone, especially with sustainable diet. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the perennial food shortages in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome 230 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are still prone to chronic food insecurity, yet about one-third of food produced globally is regularly wasted,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the agribusiness development initiatives in Nigeria, Ahmed<\/a> said the vision of the Nigerian government is to work with key stakeholders to build an agribusiness economy capable of delivering sustained prosperity, by meeting domestic food security goals, boosting exports, and supporting sustainable income and job growths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, she said that about seven million Nigerians were actively employed in agriculture under the administration\u2019s diversification agenda, while the Ministry of Agriculture was working to ensure that the sector offers about 20 million jobs in the nearest future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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