Food Securities Program in Nigeria Completed
Fifty agricultural specialists from Nigeria’s Planning and Monitoring Units of State Agricultural Development Programs (ADPs) and from the Project Coordinating Unit (PCU) of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) participated in a week-long workshop on food security in Lokoja from January 20 to 24, 2003.
Participants from throughout the country met to discuss the relationship of food security to national security and the interdependence of food security, agricultural development, rural development and economic development, among other related topics. A food security expert and a rural development specialist co-facilitated the workshop using participatory methodology that included small group work, brainstorming, case studies and individual presentations. Their approach elicited from the specialists a plentiful list of current issues and challenges to improving household food security in their regions.
Results of the training included a macro-plan for a 2–year data collection pilot project to identify the status of food security at the local level which in turn will lead to better informed policy.
This activity was implemented under the START IQC with Development Associates, Inc., as the managing contractor.
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| Food Security Workshop, Lokoja, Nigeria, January 2003.
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