In the coming year, around 12.1 million Nigerians are anticipated to experience a food security crisis.
In a joint statement released Thursday, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Food Programme stated this.
They stated that this was attributed to the conflict in the North East as well as the economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak.
They highlighted the Cadre Harmonise food security and nutrition analysis, which was done in 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory in October 2021.
The investigation also revealed that Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states were home to roughly 19% of the affected households.
Unless efforts are made to scale up and sustain humanitarian assistance and other government initiatives for livelihood recovery and resilience, the number of people in critical or worse phases of food insecurity might rise to roughly 16.9 million, according to the report.
Abia, Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Cross [1] River, Edo, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, and Yobe, as well as the Federal Capital Territory, were among the states studied.
According to the analysis, 2.4 million people in Borno, Adamawa, and the Yobe States, which have been hardest hit by the extended armed war, are currently in crisis or worse and require immediate assistance.
Although the federal government has been injecting money into agriculture by giving farmers loans and selling fertilizer at a subsidized rate to reduce the rate of food security crises in the country.
