Food Security: Prioritise climate adaptation and nutrition, agric minister urged

The Partnership for Advancing Women in Economic Development has called on the Minister of Agriculture, Senator Abubakar Kyari, to engage women-led civil society groups in the design, planning, and implementation of his agricultural blueprint. 

The coalition’s head and the National President of the National Council for Women Societies, Hajiya Lami Adamu Lau, at a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, said there is a clear nexus between food security and gender inclusivity. 

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The group described the minister’s decision to pay attention to climate change adaptation and nutrition as a possible game changer that could lead the nation to increased food security, economic development, and poverty reduction. 

“There is a relationship between climate change, nutrition and women’s economic empowerment. Similarly, food insecurity has a direct relationship to nutritive access. We therefore call on you to support women operating in the agricultural ecosystem to improve resilience to the negative impacts of climate change on agricultural productivity in Nigeria”,  the group said.