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Food insecurity has a number of negative consequences for Nigeria. [7] It can lead to malnutrition, which can impair physical and mental development. It can also lead to social unrest, as people become desperate for food. There are many consequences of hunger, namely malnutrition, undernutrition, nutritional deficiencies child wasting.
The Ministry, formerly known as the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), was established in 1966. [4] The Ministry is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies to provide food for a growing population, supply raw materials for industry, expand markets for agricultural products, create jobs, and diversify the economy.
The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria's insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass hunger and deaths, its resident ...
The main sources of Africa's 3.6% share of the world's Carbon dioxide emissions are gas flaring in the Niger Delta and coal-fired power plants in South Africa. [23] But, the continent's forests are rapidly disappearing because of desertification and deforestation, which has negative consequences for both Africa and the climate at large. [24]
Malnutrition in Nigeria, directly or indirectly, is the cause of 45 percent of all death of under-five children. [1] Malnutrition is the cause of stunted growth in over 28 million children in sub-Saharan Africa . [ 2 ]
The Lagos Food Bank Initiative (LFBI) was registered in 2015 and began operations in February 2016. It is the first food bank in Nigeria, established to tackle hunger and malnutrition, reduce food wastage and provide emergency food solutions through its network of food banks nationwide.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity intensified in many places. In the second quarter of 2020, there were multiple warnings of famine later in the year. [3] [4] In an early report, the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Oxfam-International talks about "economic devastation" [5] while the lead-author of the UNU-WIDER report compared COVID-19 to a "poverty tsunami". [6]
The fire next time: the upsurge in civil insecurity across the Central Zone of Nigeria. Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. Higazi, Adam, 'Farmer-Pastoralist Conflicts on the Jos Plateau, Central Nigeria: Security Responses of Local Vigilantes and the Nigerian State', Conflict, Security and Development, 16.4 (2016), 365–85