BOI unveils palliative programme to tackle food insecurity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cEvery single agency needs to have a representative and possibly a one-stop table where everything is done and this is where we will need collaboration,\u201d Abisola said during a panelist discussion at the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She emphasised the need for private agribusiness owners to form partnerships with the federal government, noting that the agricultural sector can achieve more with the combined efforts of both bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abisola reiterated the efforts of the Lagos State government in tackling rising food inflation, saying that the state government was building partnerships with other stakeholders in the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe launched a cold shopping solution for the red meat initiative and this was in partnership with the private sector to tackle unhygienic handling of red meat in Lagos,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, she also said there have been hurdles to building a successful partnership with other private organisations in the country, especially from the government side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Experts in agribusiness have called for collaboration to tackle rising food insecurity and issues limiting farmers productivity. The agripreneurs who made the call during the AgriConnect 2024 Summit themed: \u2018Bridging the Divide: Fostering Collaboration and Innovation for a Sustainable Agriculture Future\u2019 held recently in Lagos, said food insecurity in Nigeria can be tackled when both private and government agric stakeholders come together. Ruth Abisola, Lagos State Commissioner of Agriculture, said for the country to improve its food production, there has to be more collaboration between private and government organisations. Read also: BOI unveils palliative programme to tackle food insecurity \u201cEvery single agency needs to have a representative and possibly a one-stop table where everything is done and this is where we will need collaboration,\u201d Abisola said during a panelist discussion at the summit. She emphasised the need for private agribusiness owners to form partnerships with the federal government, noting that the agricultural sector can achieve more with the combined efforts of both bodies. Abisola reiterated the efforts of the Lagos State government in tackling rising food inflation, saying that the state government was building partnerships with other stakeholders in the private sector. \u201cWe launched a cold shopping solution for the red meat initiative and this was in partnership with the private sector to tackle unhygienic handling of red meat in Lagos,\u201d she added. However, she also said there have been hurdles to building a successful partnership with other private organisations in the country, especially from the government side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-agribusiness","category-economy","category-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plumhorizons.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}