Nigeria’s Agriculture and Food Security Challenges
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Nigeria has the ambition of diversifying her economy from crude petroleum dependency. The country also faces a looming food security crisis with a growing population becoming increasingly dependent on imported foods. At the same time, the once dominant subsistence-oriented farm economy is at risk of gradual marginalization. Insecure land tenure, scarcity of funds and credit, labour scarcity despite overall high unemployment and stagnant technology have crippled its further development. Until today, a wide range of policies, programmes and projects have had limited impact in ameliorating these problems. Given the choice, young people from the rural areas rather try their luck in urban centres. Imagine... Kaduna, Abuja and Onitsha are mega cities like Lagos with populations over 12 million people. They are supplied with food made-in-Nigeria, some of it coming from urban agriculture on roof tops and gardens along railand waterways. A rail and road network that picks up food where it is produced and delivering it to consumers with a marginal loss of goods.
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