The Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO of the United Nations has said that about 4.02 million people in Nigeria are currently faced with acute food insecurity.
The Organisation’s Country Director, Suffyan Koroma said this at the presentation of October 2019 CH Analysis’ outcome for 16 states and Abuja.
Koroma said the food security situation report released by the World Food Programme and the Organisation noted that there had been significant improvement in the food security situation in the country.
He said the cadre harmonised analysis of acute food insecurity situations, carried out in 17 northern states, indicated that over four million Nigerians would be in the food crisis phase or worse off between October and December.
The Country Director listed the 17 states to include Kaduna, Kastina, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Niger, Kebbi, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara, Adamawa, Plateau and Sokoto as well as Abuja.
In his remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Umar said that attaining food and nutrition security remained the cardinal objective of the present administration.
