FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: AN ENHANCER TO WOMEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA
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2019
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Cenresin Publications
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Abstract; Food security has become an issue of global concern in the
recent time. Nigeria, with her huge endowed natural and human
resources is not spared. The country also faces a looming food
security crisis with a growing population that is increasingly
dependent on imported foods. The once dominant subsistence
oriented farm economy is at risk of gradual marginalisation. Insecure
land tenure, scarcity of funds and credit, labour scarcity despite
overall high unemployment and stagnant technology have crippled
its further development. Studies of food security and the right to
food both offer important starting points in tackling the production,
access and consumption of food; they do not provide routes for
challenging and changing the gender-inequitable food systems. This
study, therefore, examined Food sovereignty and how it could
enhance the role of women in food security in Nigeria. The diffusion
theory provides the conceptual framework for this study. The design
is descriptive in nature and a secondary source was used to elicit
information for the study.
Keywords: Food sovereignty, Food and food security, economic
development, agriculture
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Food sovereignty, Food and food security, economic development, agriculture