Food Security: Research recommends four climate-resilient policy interventions for Nigeria

A new research has recommended four major policy interventions within the agriculture sector that the Nigerian government could adopt to address the biting hardship of rising food inflation in the country.

The new body of work, which has been published in the latest edition of Ecological Economics by ScienceDirect, a repository of peer-reviewed articles, journals, and books, is titled; “Climate Change, Income Sources, Crop Mix, and Input Use Decisions: Evidence from Nigeria”.

The authors- Mulunbrhan Amare and Bedru Balana, are research fellows in the Development and Governance Unit at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)- a research centre of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a “food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.”

These recommendations are coming at a time Nigerians are struggling to cope with the harsh economy, especially with the rise in food inflation from 25.25 per cent…

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