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Abuja - “Two years ago, I planted two bags of rice seed, but the floods washed away the entire field, I could not even get seeds to plant during the following season. Then came flood alerts, warning us of the imminent disaster. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...

Abuja - In 2024, Nigeria is expected to see about 26.5 million people grappling with high levels of food insecurity, as disclosed by the Government of Nigeria and its partners during the unveiling of the October 2023 Cadre Harmonisé analysis on food insecurity. Moreover, approximately 9 million children are at risk...

Abuja – Preventive health care has been identified as one of the major gaps in the animal health sector ecosystem. The immediate strategy to ameliorate the situation is to improve smallholder farmer’s access to animal healthcare services through capacity building of private veterinary paraprofessionals. This justifies the collaborative initiative of the...

Abuja - The FAO representative ad interim (a.i.) in Nigeria and to ECOWAS Mr. Koffy Dominique Kouacou paid a courtesy call to the Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, in his office on Tuesday, to formally meet with the minister to familiarize and firm the existing partnership.   The...

Abuja:  The government of Lagos state has committed USD4.322 million to upgrade the coconut value chain, with a view to contribute to the enhancement of the state’s economy and has signed a Unilateral Trust Fund (UTF) agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to implement the...