ActionAid Nigeria has embarked on a project to train 120,000 Smallholder Women Farmers (SHWF) and young people, focusing on innovative agricultural techniques and access to essential resources such as seeds, seedlings, livestock, and poultry farming.
The initiative aims to promote agroecological practices, indigenous seed production, and biodiversity preservation to enhance farm yields and improve food and nutrition security.
Suwaiba Dankabo, Deputy Country Director and Director of Programmes at ActionAid Nigeria announced the project during a National Summit on Agroecology and Public-Private Partnership on Agroecology held in Abuja.
Implemented under the ActionAid International (AAI) Transformative Impact Fund, the three-year project seeks to establish and scale agroecological model farms led by SHWF in Ondo, Delta, Ebonyi, Jigawa, and the FCT.
The Summit aims to explore ways to enhance agroecology practices, improve farming and food systems, and reduce hunger in Nigeria, with a particular focus on empowering women and youth, who are the backbone of agricultural production in the country.
Dankabo emphasized the critical role of women, who constitute over 60% of Nigeria’s agricultural workforce, in ensuring food security and contributing to subsistence farming and market production.
