Nigeria in Need of Food Assistance Despite Bumper Harvest - Report

18 March 2018

A recently released quarterly report on crop prospects and food situation by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reveal that Nigeria and 36 other countries were in need of external food assistance due to one reason or the other.

According to the report, about 3.16 million Nigerians were estimated to be facing acute food insecurity thus requiring urgent lifesaving responses and livelihood protection, this is in addition to the nearly 2, 000 people facing famine in the affected areas.

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