77.2m citizens face food insecurity – ActionAid

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Holding their pots Somali children from southern Somalia, lineup to receive cooked food in Mogadishu, Somalia, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. The World Food Program said Saturday that it is expanding its food distribution efforts in famine-struck Somalia, where the U.N. estimates that only 20 percent of people needing aid are getting it.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has said that 77.2million citizens are faced with food insecurity while another 57.4million battle nutrition insecurity.

According to the NGO, 101.2million citizens lack access to cooking fuel which contributes largely to climate change and health issues. 

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), had said in a report that 133 million Nigerians are multidimensional poor.

AAN Country Director, Ene Obi, who revealed this at the official launch of the Strategic Partnerships for Agroecology and Climate Justice in West Africa (SPAC-West Africa), Monday in Abuja, said the situation is worse than is being portrayed by statistics.

She lamented that lack of investment in agriculture, late budget releases, insurgency, armed banditry and farmers-herders clashes have all combined to worsen the situation.  

She said that through the SPAC-West Africa project that will be implemented in Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal, there would be an improvement in food and nutrition security as well as enhance agroecology practices, indigenous seeds and agrobiodiversity preservation for increased farm yields

The 3 years projected will be funded by ActionAid International through its Transformative Impact Fund.

She said: “26 model agroecological farms will also be set up and scaled by SHWF to increase adoption of agroecological farmers will also be set up and scaled by SHWF to adopt agroecology practices. 

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