More than three million households in nine northern states of Nigeria have been earmarked to benefit from over one hundred and fifty million United States dollars, budgeted to improve food and nutrition security and poverty reduction in the region, under the project titled value chain northern Nigeria (VCN).
Speaking at the launch for technical assistance for the project, the minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, said the initiative will strengthen the resilience of smallholder farmers, ensure climate adaptation and provide market access.
It is an eight-year project, conceived to support the agri-food transformation and food security of the Renewed Hope Agenda.
Validated in a 2024 pact signed by the federal government and donor agencies in May 2025, the global centre for adaptation is unveiling technical assistance support services for the project to scale up access to digital solutions, quality Agriculture inputs, value chain financing and to ensure over three million smallholder family farmers benefit from the project.
The project is expected to reduce poverty, enhance nutrition and better resilience of rural and most vulnerable populations in the nine northern states of Borno, Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoko, Yobe and Zamfara states.
(Editor: Anoyoyo Ogiagboviogie)
