A U.S. government global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, has earmarked 12.5 million dollars for food security in Nigeria.
Head of the International Food Policy Research Institute- IFPRI Nigeria office, Dr George Mavrotas, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the initiative has three main objectives, which include strengthening of the National capacity for greater evidence-based policy process in agriculture; promoting and fostering informed policy dialogue among stakeholders and supporting government efforts to plan and implement effective research and policy analyses.
Mavrotas, who is also the Chief of the Feed the Future Nigeria Agricultural Policy Project, said the fund which has been released since 2016 would cover various agricultural and food security programmes in Nigeria for the next five years.
The initiative according to him was a joint effort between the Michigan State University, the IFPRI, and Nigeria Strategy Support Programme funded by USAID-Nigeria.
