Feeding Nigeria’s current and future population necessitates the adoption and application of innovations to agriculture so as to make the sector more competitive and sustainable. Nigeria is projected to add no fewer than 202 million people to its current population of 196 million between 2018 and 2050. In Nigeria, the agriculture sector continues to be impacted by weather hazards, restricting access to food and increasing food insecurity. CGIAR estimates that smallholder farming contributes: up to 32% to global agriculture sector emissions; 42% to the agriculture sector emissions from developing countries; 3.5% of all emissions globally and four times more per year than the agriculture sector emissions of the EU or US. In addition to the loss of lives, continued violence in the major food producing states have far-reaching consequences on the productivity of Nigeria’s agriculture sector.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 19, 2019 10:30 UTC