With the present state of hunger in Nigeria, many families risk losing their children to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) or raising generation of children with poor intelligence quotient (IQ) due to malnutrition. According to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA), food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, ...

The Nigeria Poultry & Livestock Expo 2023, NIPOLI EXPO, it’s a platform that will serve as a connection between  fishery, poultry and livestock products and services providers and Nigerian SMEs, to explore business opportunities, learn the latest fishery, poultry and livestock market trends and exchange views and ideas on the latest technology. We are pleased ...

Some women in Jos metropolis, seeking alternatives to high prices of staple food and vegetables, have taken to backyard farming for the daily food needs of their families. Some of the women who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos, said it is commonsensical to have a small farm to ...

Nigeria’s leading commodities market player, AFEX, has unveiled its 2022 Wet Season Crop Production Report in a hybrid event hosted at the AFEX head office in Abuja on November 16th 2022. The report, which seeks to provide accurate and reliable data to aid the understanding of the national food system through farmer surveys and measurement ...

The Curt Bergfors Foundation is humbled to award the 2022 Food Planet Prize to anti-food loss champion ColdHubs and mangrove advocate Global Mangrove Alliance. Each winner receives $2 million, the world’s biggest award in the environmental and food sectors. The Foundation admires both winners for putting the livelihoods of those who produce food first in ...

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According to Taiwo Oyaniran, an associate director at PwC Nigeria, agriculture is a key sector in Nigeria, contributing around 22% to the country’s annual GDP and employing about 36% of the workforce. Despite the size and importance of the sector, more than 80% of farmers in Nigeria are smallholders, and they grow around 90% of ...