Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Rural development, Chief Audu Ogbeh |
The Federal Government through her Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development (FMARD) and other stakeholders in collaboration with
other international organizations will between 22nd-24 February, 2017
brainstorm on appropriation of National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP) of the Nigeria following guidelines of CAAP- African Union
(AU) Malabo Declaration on Agriculture and post harvest losses.
Expected to be at the Multi-stakeholder consultation workshop
for the appraisal and formulation of the new NAIP are the Ministers of Finance,
Agriculture, Budget and National Planning, Water Resources, Environment and
Trade & Investment who will be interfacing with other stakeholders like
AUC-DREA, NEPAD, ECOWAS and other technical agencies- AGRA, IFPRI, FAO, AFRICA
LEAD, ReSAKSS, West Africa.
Food Farm News gathered that the FMARD is very passionate to
expedite action on the outcome of this meeting’s resolutions as a tool to use
in re positioning the ministry towards global standard practice of projects
monitoring and evaluation with effective centralization of training policy so
as to avert wastage's arising from departmental duplication's.
The following are part of outcome the workshop is expected to
produce-
i. A road map with
detailed deliverables and responsibilities of partners cum time frames towards
new NAIP formulation.
ii. Coordination
mechanism of the roadmap.
iii. Communication
mechanism between Nigeria, ECOWAS, NPCA and AUC.
At the end of the conference, Nigeria is expected to be seen
playing an advocacy role for the sector to remain very high tool
for economic diversification with agricultural promotion policy using her NAIP
to comply with CAAP- Malabo declaration.
In January 30, 2014
the AU launched “year of Agriculture and food security” to mark the 10th
anniversary of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme
(CAAP), and it was stated during its 22nd
Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme “ transforming Africa’s
agriculture for shared prosperity and improved livelihood - Harnessing
opportunities for inclusive growth and sustainable development ” that the
African Union Commission (AUC) carried out a broad based consultation with key
stakeholders including AU member states, producers, women &youth
organizations and development technical partners across the continent to
review, strategize and set goals, action and targets for the next decade to
2025 as part of sustaining the CAADP momentum.
However, the climax of the 2014 AU year of agriculture and
food security was marked during the 23rd ordinary session of the
Assembly in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, from 26-27, June of the same year during
which AU Heads of state and Government adopted the Malabo declaration towards achieving
accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and
improved livelihoods.
As part of the commitment, the AU Heads of state and
Government committed to ending hunger by 2025 and to achieve this, they further
resolved to halve the current level of post-harvest losses by 2025, and Nigeria
was in the first phase of African countries to appraise her agricultural
investment plan using the Malabo conditions and guidelines.
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