Nigeria Food Insecurity Facts sheets by OXFAM

One in five people (282m) is now and 93 million in 36 African countries are suffering extreme levels of hunger. Women and children are hit hardest.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in three children under five is stunted by chronic under-nutrition while two out of five women of childbearing age are anaemic because of poor diets.  

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further, especially in Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen identified or projected to experience starvation and death (Catastrophe, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification [IPC] Phase 5), requiring the most urgent attention.

In Nigeria, while some populations in conflict-affected areas in the northeast are now projected to slide into catastrophic food insecurity at the peak of the lean season, from June 2022 on wards, it cannot be excluded that some may start to experience this even earlier, in the next months, and that the magnitude may be higher than what projections anticipate.  

Violence between farmers and herders in the central and southern states has claimed lives, disrupting rural communities and threatening Nigeria’s food security.

Developing a sustainable national agricultural investment plans that are gender-sensitive and climate-proof, which seek primarily to support small-scale farmers in non-cash crop sectors is critical!