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NIGERIA’S FOOD IMPORTATION POLICY COULD DESTROY COUNTRY’S AGRICULTURE, WARNS
AKINWUMI ADESINA
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July 13, 2024, 08:54 GMT
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The President of the African Development Bank Group Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has
said the decision by Nigeria’s government to allow massive food importation
risks destroying the country’s agriculture.
This follows the announcement by Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture Abubakar
Kyari on July 10 that the Federal Government would suspend duties, tariffs, and
taxes on the importation of maize, husked brown rice, wheat, and cowpeas through
the country’s land and sea borders, for 150 days.
“Nigeria’s recently announced policy to open its borders for massive food
imports, just to tackle short-term food price hikes, is depressing,” Adesina
told African Primates of the Anglican Church at a Retreat in Abuja, Nigeria, on
Friday.
He warned that the policy could undermine all the hard work and private
investments that have gone into Nigeria’s agriculture sector.
“Nigeria cannot rely on the importation of food to stabilize prices. Nigeria
should be producing more food to stabilize food prices, while creating jobs and
reducing foreign exchange spending, that will further help stabilize the Naira,”
said the African Development Bank president.
“Nigeria cannot import its way out of food insecurity,” he said, “Nigeria must
not be turned into a food import-dependent nation.”
Speaking on the theme ‘Food security and financial sustainability in Africa: The
role of the Church’, Adesina said Nigeria “must feed itself with pride,”
warning, “a nation that depends on others to feed itself, is independent only in
name.”
AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina speaking on 'Food Security and Financial
Sustainability in Africa' at the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa retreat
in Abuja
FAITH AND FOOD SECURITY
The clergymen assembled in Abuja under the umbrella of the Council of Anglican
Provinces of Africa (CAPA), representing more than 40 million Anglicans across
the continent.
In his opening remarks, the host, His Grace the Most Reverend Henry C. Ndukuba,
Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), said the gathering was a
unique opportunity for African Anglican leaders to deepen bonds of friendship
and collaboration, and to share collective wisdom and experiences.
The chairperson of the event, Emeritus Nigerian Professor of Science Education,
Olugbemiro Jegede, told Adesina: “You have the whole of Africa represented here.
Every Primate represents a region. Behind these Primates are millions and
millions of Anglicans who are listening to us here.”
Noting that Africa accounts for nearly a third of the more than 780 million
people worldwide who are hungry, the African Development Bank president said
agriculture is critical for the diversification of economies, and for the
transformation of rural areas, where over 70 percent of the population of Africa
live. “It is clear therefore that unless we transform agriculture, Africa
cannot eliminate poverty,” he insisted.
Adesina said Africa has 65 percent of the uncultivated arable land left in the
world, to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050. Therefore, what Africa does with
agriculture will determine the future of food in the world. “Essentially, food
is money. The size of the food and agriculture market in Africa will reach $1
trillion by 2030.”
TRANSFORMATIONAL STRIDES
Adesina briefed the Primates on the Bank’s $25 billion program to transform
agriculture by providing high performing agricultural technologies for 40
million farmers and making Africa food self-sufficient by 2030.
Most Rev. Henry C. Ndukuba, Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican
Communion), thanks AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina (to the left) for his lecture
on 'Food Security and Financial Sustainability in Africa' at the CAPA retreat in
Abuja.
He shared the Bank’s successes in helping member countries tackle the negative
effects of climate change, through financial investments and its flagship
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program.
According to the Bank president, TAAT has helped Ethiopia to become a net
exporter of wheat within five years, and it has significantly increased Sudan’s
wheat production, as well as supported countries in Eastern and Southern Africa
to continue producing food in the face of a prolonged drought.
For Nigeria, Adesina said, “Together with the Islamic Development Bank and the
International Fund for Agricultural Development, we have provided $520 million
to support the establishment of Special Agricultural Processing Zones, which
will allow private agribusinesses to establish industries that process and add
value to agricultural commodities.”
In addition, the Bank provided $134 million to Nigeria for emergency food
production to help drive down food price inflation, by significantly boosting
the local production of wheat, and cassava, under the national Agricultural
Growth Scheme.
Adesina urged the Nigerian government to take advantage of the Bank’s
investments and support for African farmers; show greater determination and
commitment to achieving food self-sufficiency, and to incentivize private sector
agribusinesses.
To support Africa’s ambitions to move up the global agricultural value chains,
the African Development Bank Group and its partners, are supporting the
development of 28 Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) l in 11
countries, with $4.5 billion dollars mobilized so far.
Speaking on behalf of the Chairman of the Council of Anglican Provinces of
Africa and Bishop of Northern Zambia, the Most Reverend Albert Chama, the
Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Most Reverend Dr. Jackson Ole
Sapit, called for greater cooperation between the Bank Group and the Anglican
Church.
“The African mind must be at the center of solving African problems. If the
African Development Bank mobilizes resources for the African continent, and the
Church also mobilizes resources for holistic transformation, we can achieve a
lot working together – and make a difference,” Ole Sapit said.
THE CHURCH AS A CHANGE AGENT
Proposing solutions for agriculture in Africa, Adesina said the world
desperately needs “visionary and passionate leaders who are strategic solution
providers and transformational change makers.”
This includes, he said, public advocacy for robust government policies to end
hunger and malnutrition, complemented by church-led food banks and other social
protection programs for the poor and needy; investing in commercial farms,
especially in rural areas; advocacy on issues of climate change; supporting and
encouraging young Africans to engage in agricultural entrepreneurship; and
demanding greater financial accountability, public probity, and better financial
management from governments.
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