نيجيريا - المرحلة 2
Major focus
The main focus of the Rural Community Stakeholders Food Systems Dialogue was on the five (5) action tracks as contained in the implementation manual. Detailed discussion examined food systems dynamics, major actors, environmental and gender issues, cultural practices affective food systems. Opportunities for improved condition as well as actions to be taken by different stakeholders to achieve food security, nutritious food and healthy consumption pattern on a sustainable basis in the rural area were discussed by the participants. First was the plenary session where the reason for the dialogue
... قراءة المزيد was explained before they participants were put in groups to discuss the action track questions. The dialogue focused on the five action track questions as follows: Action track 1: Ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition. Recommendations: • Farming should be for everyone. • Need for home gardens. • Review School Curricula at the primary and secondary school levels to include proper nutrition and developing interest in agriculture. • Integrated farming should be encouraged. • Mechanization of farm operations is key. • Construction/rehabilitation of access road to farms. • More extension agents, awareness creation on healthy feeding. Action track 2: Shifting to Healthy and sustainable consumption pattern. Recommendations: • Promoting high yielding varieties of crops and smart agricultural practices by strengthening linkages between research policy makers and farmers. • Awareness creation, advocacy, and education of rural populace on healthy and safe food consumption patterns. • Dry season production of safe and healthy foods to ensure all year-round availability. Action track 3: Optimizing environmental resource use in food production, processing and distribution, thereby reducing biodiversity loss, pollution, water use, soil degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. Recommendations: • Stoppage of bush burning and open grazing. • Addressing oil spillage. • Promoting the use of organic fertilizers as against the use of inorganic ones. • Convert waste to wealth through recycling. • Use of biological methods of pest control and food preservation. • . Discourage the use of chemical near fishponds. • Encourage the production of cover crops and making ridges across slopes to control erosion. Action track 4: Advancing equitable livelihoods in Nigeria to eliminate poverty. Recommendations • Financial empowerment of farmers. • improved road network. • Address security issues • Improved extension services. Action track 5: Building the resilience of food systems in Nigeria to withstand vulnerabilities, shocks and stress. Recommendation: • Good road to improve transportation of farm produce from farm to market. • Provide farmers with information on climate change especially as it relates to rainfall and when it is best to commence planting. • Adopt climate smart and nutritionally responsive practices – e.g. use of drought and flood tolerant crop. • Encourage farmers to form associations or cooperatives and strengthening existing associations/cooperatives. • Provide insurance facilities. One area of consensus was urgent need to address the security issues especially the menace of herds men to allow farmers go to their farms without fear of being kidnapped or killed. Also to allow farmers reap the fruit of their labour. قراءة القليل
مسار (مسارات) العمل: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
الكلمات الأساسية: Data & Evidence, Environment and Climate, Finance, Governance, Human rights, Innovation, Policy, Trade-offs, Women & Youth Empowerment