Nigeria Joins New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
June 20, 2013| |
Nigeria has been included as the newest partner country in the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a G8 initiative to boost private sector investments in African agriculture. As one of the newest members of the New Alliance, Nigeria will be a strong advocate for substantive initiatives to improve agricultural production and incomes, focusing attention on empowering women farmers.
Nigeria's Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Akinwumi Adesina represented President Goodluck Jonathan in the New Alliance Meeting. Minister Adesina said, "We have bold targets for Nigeria's agriculture transformation and the world is noticing. Our inclusion in this initiative backed by all the G8 countries, Nigerian agribusinesses and major multinationals will leverage our domestic resources to deliver on our country's agricultural promise." He added that the New Alliance will ultimately help Nigerian farmers and agribusiness to sustain this momentum and help his country achieve its current agriculture target to increase food production by 20 million metric tonnes by 2015.
More details are available at: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/06/10/nigeria-joins-g8-new-alliance-for-food-security/.
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