Stakeholders advocate Policies for water, food security

Stakeholders amongst experts in the Global Water Partnership recently held a meeting on the National Consultation on Food security and water in sub Saharan Africa, where they advocated and urged for the fast development of policies on food and water security.

The meeting organized by Global Water Partnership (GWP), urged Nigerian government and African leaders to take seriously the urgent development national policy that would guarantee food and water security in the country just as the stakeholders also wanted an elaborate agriculture development plan geared toward ending food insecurity and poverty. 

During the meeting the permanent secretary federal ministry of water resources, Musa Istifanus said the international communities have encouraged African countries to develop National policies that could guarantee food and water security in the continent.

 He added that In an attempt to set up a sustainable development goals that would be put in place at the expiration of millennium development goals on water, the high level panel of experts in the water sector on the platform GWP had met in Abuja to exchange views on the nexus between food and water security being part of the provided SDG.

Mr Istifanus said the final draft version of the report by these experts on food security and water has provided opportunity for concerned countries and government to discuss pertinent issues bordering on water and food security for dynamic innovation for optimizing linkages among the countries.

Dr Hassan Bdliya the chairman, GWP, Nigeria, in his remark said that global water partnership is an international network created in 1996 to foster the implementation of integrated water resources management and sustainable development agricultural development through deplorable irrigation waters for farmers producing crops food.

The goal of GWP is to increase water security at all levels by balancing the needs of the society with available water resources. The network includes government institution (national, regional and local) inter governmental organization, research institutions, private sectors, and service providers at the public sector.