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Thursday, August 30, 2018
IFAD supports G20 initiatives to promote nutritious foods - NaijaAgroNet
The Group of Twenty (G20) Ministers of Agriculture Meeting was
recently supported by the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD), to increase the sustainable production of nutritious foods,
reports NaijaAgroNet.
President, IFAD, Gilbert
F. Houngbo, said that sustainably feeding a growing population will take
collective action and IFAD stands ready to partner with the G20 to achieve this.
Also, Houngbo said “With small family farms supplying up to
80 per cent of the food produced in developing countries, it has never been
more critical to invest in these farmers, providing the tools for them to
better manage their land and ensure the health and productivity of their soil
in the face of a changing climate.”
While the main theme of the meeting is sustainable soil
management, the group will also discuss a proposal by Argentina to boost rural
youth employment through access to technology and engagement with the private
sector through global events.
A study by IFAD and the World Bank for the G20 Agriculture
Ministers’ Meeting last year describes how, with youth abandoning rural areas
because of lack of decent employment opportunities, the future of agriculture
is at stake.
"At IFAD we believe young people today – the largest
population the world as ever seen – are central to our work in transforming
rural communities and eradicating poverty and hunger,” said Houngbo. “If we are
to foster a generation of ‘agripreneurs’ we must answer their call for better
access to the resources they need to grow our rural areas into vibrant places
that can feed generations to come.”
Since he took office last year, IFAD has prioritized
youth-centric development across all of its programmes and projects to provide
training and support to create rural employment and enterprise options that are
appropriate for young people, in both the farm and the non-farm sector.
Another important focus of the Agriculture Ministers’
Meeting is the G20's contribution to reduce the estimated one third of all food
that is lost or wasted.
"Food loss and waste constitute is a luxury humanity
cannot afford. I salute the G20's efforts to tackle this problem," Houngbo
said. "IFAD supports small-scale farmers to improve their ability to
process and store their crops thereby minimizing food loss. IFAD stands ready
to offer its expertise to help mitigate this phenomenon.”
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Saturday, May 9, 2015
Adopt Forest and Land-use policies to alleviate global hunger – IUFRO
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO),
at a United Nations Forum on Forests in New York, called on countries with big
forest-dependent population to adopt national policies and land-use strategies
that support the planting of multi-functional trees to provide food, timber,
fuel wood, medicine and a host of environmental services that could access safe
nutritious food for all, NaijaAgroNet
reports.
The Union, NaijaAgroNet
gathered, estimates that some 805 million people – one in nine citizens of
Earth – are undernourished, primarily in Africa and Asia. At the same time,
between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people worldwide depend on forests for all or most
of their diet and livelihood.
Stepha Mcmullin, social scientist and member of the Union
report’s Authors, also concurred that forests and tree-based farming systems
such as agroforestry can complement agricultural production to ensure greater
food security and better nutrition for some of the world's most vulnerable
communities.
“If you're familiar with shade-grown coffee, then you have
an idea of what agroforestry is all about. By planting fruit trees and other
useful species, selectively weeding and otherwise managing the forests as
intensively as any farmer might tend their fields and rotate their crops;
people all over the world have created gardens that resemble natural forests in
many ways, including providing suitable habitat for a diverse array of flora
and fauna.” He said.
McMullin who, NaijaAgroNet
gathered, advocated that forests and tree-based systems also benefit people
indirectly, sited an instance in the Sahel region of Africa, noting that by
planting trees, poor farmers have turned millions of acres of what had become
semi-desert by the 1980s into more productive land, where trees now account for
80 per cent of average household incomes in the region, largely through
shea-nut production.
Coordinator of IUFRO’s Global Forest Expert Panels initiative,
Christoph Wildburger, told NaijaAgroNet
that tree-based farming can help prevent climate change calamities, which is
also a threat, not just to the productivity of agroforests but to conventional
agricultural operations, as well.
“Large-scale crop production is highly vulnerable to extreme
weather events, which may occur more frequently under climate change. Science
shows that tree-based farming can adapt far more better to such calamities. We
know that forest already play a key role in mitigating the effects of climate
change. It should also be made very clear that they also play a key role in
alleviating hunger and improving nutrition.” He said.
Ultimately, lack of community control over
forests and, of course, deforestation could limit the abilities of forests to
enhance food security. Forest management in most countries is fragmented across
different governmental agencies and administrative jurisdictions. Daniel Nsolibe /Ed, Ops.
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Thursday, January 9, 2014
Nutricima's Mega Cash promo debuts to reward consumers
Beginning from Monday, January 13
through April 14, 2014, customers of Nutricima Limited, the makers of Coast,
Nunu, Olympic milk and other nutritious food drinks, will be rewarded
under the latest initiative, ‘Nutricima Mega Cash Promo’ reports NaijaAgroNet.
The promo, which was launched in Lagos, NaijaAgroNet confirms is aimed at
rewarding new and existing consumers of Nutricima’s range of milk products.
Head of Marketing, Nutricima, Wande Oluwasegunfunmi, disclosed to NaijaAgroNet that consumers stand
chances of winning millions of Naira and numerous gifts after purchasing any of
Coast evaporated milk, Olympic evaporated milk and family pack of Nunu
powdered milk, which has the promo label.
He explained to NaijaAgroNet
that under the label, consumers could find a unique six (6) digit code and
Serial Code number, which is to be sent to a dedicated phone number
08093377802.
According to him, the sender then gets an auto response which
informs the consumer about what he or she has won.
NaijaAgroNet
gathered that some of the instant prizes to be won in the Mega Cash
Promo include N50 airtime e-top-up for thousands of consumers, cash
prizes of N500, N1,000, N5,000 and N10,000 each.
In addition, NaijaAgroNet
recalls that apart from the instant prizes, consumers could also qualify for a
monthly raffle draw where they have the opportunity to win between N50,000 and N1million.
Isaac Oyimah
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