Food shortage

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, announced that approximately ₦309 billion was injected into the Nigerian economy through harvest in the past year as part of the…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has announced plans to distribute seized food items across the country as part of efforts to address the ongoing food crisis. The National Public Relations…

With more than $500 million raised from domestic resources, multilateral development banks, and international financial institutions, the Federal Government will transform Nigeria’s food system and agro value chain. On the…

The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima will represent President Bola Tinubu at the United Nations Food Systems Summit in Rome as well as the Russia-Africa Summit. Shettima is scheduled to…

Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a UN report said Wednesday, a sharp rise from 193 million the…

Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations’…

World food prices fell for a ninth month in a row in December but hit their highest level on record for the full year in 2022, UN data showed Friday.…

The Federal Government has again debunked claims that the nation would experience food shortage in 2023. Minister of Agriculture, Mohammad Abubakar, disclosed this on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council…