Achieving Food Security in Nigeria: Challenges and Way Forward
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2020
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Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Umar Musa Ya'ardua University, Katsina
Abstract
This paper examined the challenges and ways of achieving food security in Nigeria while relying on secondary data and descriptive statistics as its methodology. The paper noted that, achieving food security has attracted national and international attention. In Nigeria, several agricultural policies and programmes have been formulated to curtail food security challenges. Despite these efforts, Nigeria is far from achieving the goal of food security owing to challenges arising from insecurity, poverty, corruption, population growth and national policies that do not promote infrastructural development, adequate funding and equal access to food for all. As such the study relying on the Public-Private Partnership theory concluded that food security can be achieved if the efforts of Government and other stakeholders such as the private sector to combat food insecurity will not only make food available but also ensure that people can consistently afford to make it ready for consumption, hence, ensuring that all the four components viz.; availability, accessibility, utilization and stability are present. The paper therefore, recommended the need for agricultural policies that will provide for a system of mechanized farming, regulate the use of chemical to prevent soil degradation, tackle insecurity which causes displacement of farmers and public-private partnership in terms of increased private sector investment in Agric sector; these without doubt will help to address the challenges confronting the agricultural sector in delivering the gains of food security in Nigeria.
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Food Security, Availability, Agricultural policies, Accessibility and Utilization, PPP
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Idris, I; Addulrauf, A. Sani K., Umar, A.Y & Sa’adu, Y. (2020). Achieving Food Security in Nigeria: Challenges and way Forward. Published by Social and Administrative sciences Review UMYU Journal of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences. Umaru Musa Yar’adua University Katsina, Katsina. 6(1); 201-222