To support multistakeholder processes, PILA integrates participatory methods that present comprehensive landscape assessments and facilitate dialogue, negotiation, and consensus-building. Two pivotal workshops will advance this approach, bringing together national and state-level stakeholders from Cross River and Ondo States.

To promote food security and nutrition awareness, FAO is collaborating with the Sokoto State Ministries of Agriculture and Basic and Secondary Education to establish school gardens in four secondary schools in Rabah, Gumbi, Kalambaina, Tangaza LGAs. These gardens provide students with hands-on agricultural training, practical gardening skills, and nutrition education. FAO has also distributed vegetable seed kits, farming tools, treadle pumps, and irrigation accessories to enhance productivity in these school gardens.

The Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the FAO and other partners released the report of the Cadre Harmonisé, findings show that 30.6 million people in 26 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are projected to face acute food and nutrition insecurity at Crisis (CH Phase 3) or worse during the June–August 2025 lean season

With a shortage of Veterinary Doctors, VPPs are pivotal in filling the gap and reaching rural livestock farmers. However, economic hardships and skill gaps present business challenges and bottlenecks for VPPs.

When the floods happened in parts of northeastern Nigeria, an estimated 50 percent of Maiduguri was submerged, cutting off access to essential services such as hospitals, schools, worship centres and markets. Bridges and key infrastructure were damaged, compounding the humanitarian crisis. By December 2024, FAO estimated that floods had affected 973 715 hectares of cropland nationwide, including over 60 380 hectares in Borno State alone. The widespread displacement and destruction heightened the risk of disease outbreaks, making urgent intervention critical

 Nigeria ranks as the 14th largest producer of tomato fruit globally and the second largest in Africa, yet paradoxically, it is also the 13th largest importer of tomato paste. With an annual production of 2.3 million tonnes, Kaduna State is recognized as Nigeria’s top producer.

Despite its vast potential for income generation among smallholder farmers, over 50 percent of Nigeria’s annual tomato yield is lost due to various challenges such as post-harvest losses, outdated farming techniques among others.

Over the past decade (from the early to late 2010s), the Boko Haram insurgency has devastated Bama, displacing countless families, including Yakaru’s, causing widespread loss of life, destruction of property, and the collapse of critical systems such as agriculture, education and healthcare. These challenges, compounded by climate change and inflation, have driven up the costs of energy, food and agricultural inputs, exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition.

With women comprising nearly 70 percent of informal traders in Sub-Saharan Africa, programmes such as EWAT are vital in helping to provide equal opportunities for women agripreneurs.  

Agricultural inputs will be distributed to 24 500 farmers households living in 12 LGAs in Borno State. In Adamawa, 9 800 farmers households across six LGAs will receive the same package, while in Yobe State, it will be 14 700 households in nine LGAs. The distributed items include assorted vegetables and cereal seeds, NPK fertilizer, and water pumps to support irrigation for dry season farming.

Nationally, the number of people experiencing Emergency levels (Phase 4) of food insecurity is projected to increase. While no populations have been classified as Catastrophe (Phase 5), populations experiencing Emergency (Phase 4) is anticipated to increase from 1 million people in the peak of the 2024 lean season to 1.8 million people at the same period in 2025, representing an 80 percent increase.

Strengthening stakeholder’s capacity in anticipatory action and preparedness approaches and interventions is crucial to building resilience, safeguarding critical assets, and reducing losses

“These landscapes which have been carefully selected for the project have been overexploited over the years and if left unmaintained will result in a loss of livelihoods, income and increased vulnerability of mangrove dependent communities".

FAO is deeply concerned about the potential for increased hunger, as nearly 31.8 million Nigerians are already at risk of acute food insecurity. “The floods continue to push vulnerable communities deeper into poverty, and the widespread loss of farmland will severely affect food security. Urgent coordinated action is needed to avert a worsening humanitarian disaster".

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) FISH4ACP initiative is hosting a global forum on aquatic food value chains. The Blue Food Forum will be held in Dar...

Maiduguri, Nigeria - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducted a Training-of-Trainers (ToT) workshop on fodder production for government extension workers and FAO implementing partners in...

The workshop underscored several key recommendations for advancing the ISAVET Programme Abuja - The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), through its  Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), hosted a workshop...

Abuja - Nigeria - Livelihoods and food security in low and mid-level income countries have continued to  be affected by Transboundary Animal Diseases (TAD), with losses in productivity, utility and revenue...

Yola, Adamawa state - Alheri Bitrus, Rebecca Mohammed, and Amina Yusuf, three women living in Kwarwa, a rural community in Gombi Local Government Area (LGA) of Adamawa State, are turning their lives...

Yola, Adamawa State - For years, residents of rainfed farming communities in northeastern Nigeria have suffered devastating losses due to recurrent flooding, with extensive damage to cropland, livestock, homes and infrastructure....

Maiduguri – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the 2024 Rainy Season Input Distribution in Maiduguri, Borno State. This aims to bolster food security and...