IFPRI blames inflation, multiple demands, pandemic on food shortage (News Agency of Nigeria)

News Agency of Nigeria published an article about poverty in Nigeria. An international agriculture expert, Kwaw Andam, says high inflation rates arising from multiple demand and supply, is responsible for the high level of poverty in the country. The poverty level of the people had become more compounded by pandemic restrictions in the country. These restrictions have also made food less affordable to the citizenry. Andam believes that there was a need to transform Nigeria’s food systems and agriculture, in particular, to be crisis-resilient and environmentally sustainable and for the food system to be vibrant generators of jobs and wealth, and providers of healthy diets for all to address these problems.  In the policy brief Transforming Nigeria’s agrifood system: Wealthier, but also healthier, Andam and coauthors say that it will require a paradigm shift that puts consumers and their diets at the center of policymaking. It includes agricultural policy that focuses on traditional objectives like farmer support, staple food availability, and price stability.