Nigerians, numbering over 26.5 million including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) may be plunged into acute food insecurity between June and August 2024.
The report which was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, in Abuja on Friday, showed that the post-effect of petrol subsidy removal had its toll on food prices, which impacted household capacity to sustain acceptable food consumption patterns.
“The unacceptable thresholds of food consumption may have resulted from a significant spike in staple food prices following increases in fuel prices, inflation and high cost of food production,” it stated. “As you all agree, CH analysis continues to produce reliable and widely accepable evidence for planning food security and livelihood response targeting, and for prioritisation of development programmes.
According to him, environmental and human factors such as climate change, displacements due to insecurity and seasonal flooding regimes have remained a recurrent concern for the government. Fausat Lawal, director of special duties at the ministry, who represented the permanent secretary, said that the ministry remains resolute in leading and supporting the CH process in Nigeria.
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