International Centre for Economic and Development
Agricultural Development and Food Security
Agricultural Development and Food Security
Due to the challenges of population dynamics and climate change, which have significant implications for agriculture and food security, we aimed to ensure that everyone everywhere has enough good-quality food to lead a healthy life, by contributing our quotas to the four pillars of food security, which are availability, access, utilization, and stability, which will make an individual to have access to sufficient food of the right dietary mix at all times to be food secure.
Part of the ICED approaches to promoting food security in Nigeria are:
- To culminate in a multi-faceted approach by investing in sustainable agricultural practices, supporting smallholder farmers, strengthening value chains, and improving post-harvest handling and storage systems.
- Building Local Capacity, Increasing Productivity, and Improving Markets and Trade
- Training small farmers and foreign officials on plant and animal health systems, risk analysis, and avoiding post-harvest loss;
- Completing assessments on climate change;
- Increasing agricultural productivity.