By Omotayo Edubi
Plant for Peace Foundation has called for the need to begin to advance agriculture in rural communities towards achieving food sufficiency and security in the country.
The CEO, James Brett, made this known on Monday at a zoom news conference to announce the organisation’s agriculture conference scheduled to hold in Abuja on April 7.
He said plans are on the way to assist rural communities and small scale farmers in conflict and post conflict territory in Nigeria to become supplier-chain farmers rather than just for local consumption.
Brett said that the organisation has been empowering communities to become self sufficient through sustainable agriculture and trade.
He noted that achieving food security and sustainable economic development for food sufficiency was calling for desperate measures which we must all come together to tackle headlong.
Brett said: “The need to advance agriculture in rural development in the midst of conflict resonated across borders.
“We must begin to stimulate troubled areas of the world in empowering communities to become self-sufficient through sustainable agriculture and a trend to fix smaller farmers and communities in Nigeria.
“We will be participating in a global food market conference on advancing Nigeria’s agriculture and rural development in the midst of conflicts.”
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), AVAS Consulting, Michael Kadiri, said that the amount of technology and infrastructure that would be delivered by Plant for Peace.