$7.8 Million: Subsidized by the Global Environment Facility…the following Five Years has been enlisted for Nigeria’s Kebbi and Niger States to usher Agrarian Sustainability Initiatives Remake Nigeria’s Food Systems and Resilience

By Abdul Rahman Bangura-

NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– This project would span over successive five years (2025-2030) and give birth to environmental advantages with an emphasis on building sustainable, regenerative, nature-positive, and resilient food systems – making them pollution-free.

Titled, “Transformation to Sustainable Crops, Livestock, and Aquaculture Food Systems in Nigeria,” the programme is a collaborative effort led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in partnership with the Nigerian government with focus on production of food crops like maize and rice, livestock, and sustainable aquaculture in the Niger-Benue River basins.

The FAO representative and interim in Nigeria and to ECOWAS, Dominique Koffy Kouacou, when he inaugurated the Inception Workshop for the GEF 8 Food Systems Integrated Programme (FSIP) let out FAO would help the administration of Nigeria in embarking on the thorny oppugn at the nucleus of the environment, agriculture, forestry, and marine and freshwater resources.

In his statements, the Mini of State for Environment, Dr. Iziak Salako emphasized the significance of this project, which he spoke about and corresponded with the 2022-2027 National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP).

He said, “Our collective decision and action remain the elixir to generate a positive path for the tomorrow of agriculture, providing food security, environmental sustainability, and economic prosperity for all of us.

We must formulate adaptable and innovative procedures to improve our solidity through optimal usage of natural and human resources and modern agrarian technologies.”

Both Commissioner of Agriculture in Kebbi State, Shehu Muazu, and Ibrahim Mami, Commissioner of Livestock and Fisheries, Niger State greeted the project while promising to make a contribution towards the win.

New Africa Daily News Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports, Africa Correspondent