UN Human Rights Council adopts peasant rights declaration

Peasant farmers are the backbone of our food systems

The UN Human Rights Council (OHCHR) has passed a resolution adopting a declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas.

Images speak at the farmers' Dialogue on Quality seeds advocacy held at the Man Power Development Institute, Dutse, Jigawa state. Sponsor by PERL-DFID.

Pictures speak at the farmers' Dialogue on Quality seeds advocacy held at the Man Power Development Institute, Dutse, Jigawa state. Sponsor by PERL-DFID.

Pictures speak at the farmers' Dialogue on Quality seeds advocacy held at the Man Power Development Institute, Dutse, Jigawa state. Sponsor by PERL-DFID.

Empowering Africa’s rural women will help fight hunger, study

Women are the backbone of rural production (Photo: CC0)

If women have the same access to skills, resources and opportunities as men, they can be powerful drivers in the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

We can feed 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits, study

 global shift towards healthy and more plant-based diets is needed (Photo: CC0)

Feeding a world population of 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary limits is possible if we change the way we eat and produce food, new research shows.

Scientists urge rapid and radical changes to limit global warming

Global warming will increase the intensity and frequency of droughts (Photo: CC0)

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require rapid and far-reaching changes in all aspects of society, including agriculture and food systems.

Accelerated progress needed to achieve zero hunger, report

Progress in the fight against hunger has been too slow (Photo: CC0)

Progress in the fight against hunger and undernutrition has been too slow and uneven. Levels of hunger are still serious or alarming in 51 countries across the globe – and forced migration is closely associated with food insecurity.

IPES report highlights successful cases of agroecological transition

Replacing machinery with oxen (Photo: CC0)

 It is possible for communities, regions and whole countries to fundamentally redesign their food and farming systems around agroecological principles and break away from industrial agriculture.

Images speak at the Ondo-State World Food Day celebration hosted at the College of Agriculture, Akure for its recognition to food security in terms of training the youths, women and all others category of farmers with best agronomics practices.

L-R: Ondo State Head of Service, Mr. Toyin Akinkuotu; the Executive Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu SAN; the Provost, Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Dr. Samson Adeola Odedina during the 2018 World Food Day Celebration held at the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State.

Images speak at the Ondo-State World Food Day celebration hosted at the College of Agriculture, Akure for its recognition to food security in terms of training the youths, women and all others category of farmers with best agronomics practices.

FG Committed to eradicating hunger – Lokpobiri

·       Decries Herdsmen/Farmers Crises

 The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri

The Federal Government has assured of its total commitment to the zero hunger goals by the year 2030 and has promised to increase the present tempo of strong agricultural activities in the country to attain this national objective. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri gave the commitment recently in Abuja.

World Food Day: Gate Keepers Report and Food Security in Nigeria by the Executive Director of the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Prof M.K. Othman

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh

My dear readers; permit me to digress from continuation of my last week article on recognition of 21^st Century Inventors to discuss on “World Food Day celebration, Gate Keepers Report and their implications to Food Security in Nigeria”. This topic is apt at the moment to remind my fellow citizens of the impending food insecurity threat to our dear nation, Nigeria.