Vice-President Kashim Shettima has given an insight into the reasons for the declaration of the ‘State of Emergency on Agriculture’ by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Shettima spoke at a session on: Country Perspectives: Government-led Strategies and Regional Framework’, at the ongoing UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
So, the government came out with some very bold policy guidelines informed by the need to strengthen our food system.
”These include the setting up of the Presidential Food System Coordinating Units.
”The units mainly not to displace the existing bodies but to coordinate the activities for enhanced food delivery. And issues like the Food Support mechanism in the North East and the North. “
Shettima applauded the World Food Programme and other Multilateral agencies for their support to the Nigeria.
He stated that in displaced people’s camps, Tinubu’s administration took the initiative to encourage the displaced people to produce their food.
This, according to him, is with a view giving them resilience, dignity and most importantly to build resilience against shocks.
The vice-president,” In the Sahelian region, there is an existence relationship between the economy and the ecology and the government has to come up with a very robust policies to ensure that our people do not fall into despair.
Hunger knows no bounds, hunger doesn’t discriminate.
