Highlights

The report identifies the following levers for the transition towards sustainable food systems in Nigeria:

Addressing vulnerability to internal and global shocks

• Enhance public and private investments in the agricultural sector, and improve access to financing to the smallholder farmer.

• Promote good governance through transparency and accountability (thriving for peace and socioeconomic stability).

Addressing the underdevelopment of agricultural-value chains

• Strengthen implementation of the relevant policies.

• Increase awareness among food system actors along with developing a strong regulatory and monitoring mechanism to promote safe food practices.

Addressing vulnerability to climate change and natural resources degradation

• Promote good governance and stakeholder engagement to limit natural resource degradation and develop climate resilience.

• Strengthen smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate change.

Addressing food and nutrition security, poor diet quality and high prevalence of malnutrition in Nigeria

• Strengthen policy and institutional frameworks to implement food and nutrition security policies and programmes.

• Strengthen subregional level platforms to promote behavioural change in dietary practices.