The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) José Graziano da Silva, has visited the hunger-threatened
northeastern Nigeria, and called for urgent increase in humanitarian
assistance, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Da Silva also said that restoring agriculture-based livelihoods
is key to recovery and peace efforts in Lake Chad Basin region.
"If we miss the coming planting season, there will be
no substantial harvests until 2018. Failure to restore food production now will
lead to the worsening of widespread and severe hunger and prolonged dependency
on external assistance further into the future," Graziano da Silva
said.
He insisted that the time for all to act is now, stressing
that insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin - which incorporates parts of Cameroon,
Chad, Niger and northeastern Nigeria - has resulted in the largest humanitarian
crisis in Africa.
NaijaAgroNet gathered
that the conflict has forced an estimated 1.9 million people to abandon their
homes and their predominantly agricultural livelihoods, in northeastern Nigeria
alone.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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