16 States of the Federation and the FCT may face food crisis in 2021.
This was contained in the 2020 Cadre Harmonize October – December report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO.
Cadre Harmonisé (CH) is a current regional framework aimed at preventing food crisis by identifying affected populations and proffering appropriate measures to improve their food and nutrition security. However, the 2020 report is not looking well for 16 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria.
Low access to funding, limited physical and economic access to food availability, Covid-19 pandemic amongst others are said to be some of the contributing factors.
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The report says 9.8m people are prone to the crisis and might fall into worse situation by December 2020 while 13.9m people are expected to be in crisis or worse by June and August 2021.
The states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara States And FCT.
