The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, in partnership with the Nationwide Meeting, Nigerian Financial Summit Group, World Alliance for Improved Vitamin and Third-party Advocacy Marketing campaign, are searching for extra actions to sort out meals insecurity in Nigeria.
This was contained in a communique issued on the finish of a two-day retreat for related committees of the Nationwide Meeting on ‘meals fortification, workforce diet, and meals techniques transformation in Nigeria’ on Friday.
Based on the communique, multi-dimensional insecurity challenges attributable to actions of armed teams have continued to wreak havoc on the amount and high quality of meals manufacturing and distribution, whereas hampering workforce effectivity and productiveness in numerous components of the nation.
“Hovering meals costs have plunged many households into crushing starvation and hunger, exacerbating the nation’s already pervasive meals insecurity.
“The absence of a workforce diet coverage in Nigeria contributes to workforce malnutrition, with devastating impacts on well being, productiveness, and financial improvement.
“There are gaps within the complete and coherence of present insurance policies for meals techniques and diet. For example, meals addressed by present fortification laws are now not essentially the most extensively consumed meals in Nigeria; the Nationwide Coverage on Meals and Vitamin doesn’t embody intentional connections with local weather change,” the communique learn partly.
They nevertheless suggested that “The Nationwide Meals Security Invoice needs to be revisited by a five-member Committee, two members within the Senate (Well being and Agriculture), three members within the Home of Representatives (NAFDAC, Agriculture – Meals Manufacturing, and Vitamin), and with GAIN offering technical help; to handle gaps and conflicts within the Invoice and champion it by means of legislative processes.
“A Meals Fortification Invoice needs to be developed and processed to passage and assent, with the involvement of all related MDAs.
“Public consciousness about workforce diet and related interventions needs to be raised by means of impactful evidence-based campaigns, fostering widespread acceptance, and paving the best way for ratification and implementation of the draft coverage.”
