FOOD and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da Silva has said that declining prices could thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and extreme poverty unless steps are taken to guarantee decent incomes and livelihoods for small-scale producers.

As Nigeria set to mark its 56 years of independence, Christ Embassy Church has called on Nigerians to embrace agriculture as a means of revitalising the nation’s economy.

In the first part of this report, penultimate Wednesday, we highlighted why and how more and more states are seeking and adopting various measures to boost their internally generated revenues and effectively address their worsening insolvency or cash crunch challenges.

The President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) , Dr. Agnes Kalibata, has called on African countries to re-align their agricultural practices, warning that failure to do so will see them having no money to develop other economic components as all financial concentration would be on food imports.

Nigeria is among 12 countries in Africa that have posted higher agriculture productivity and stronger GDP growth as well as sharper declines in malnutrition due to early implementation of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) goals.