Nigeria

Situation Report

Sector Status

Food Security

4.35M
People targeted for food assistance
$470M
Funding required (USD)

Needs

According to the March Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis, the growing food crisis in the BAY states is triggered by the protracted conflict and insecurity, fuel subsidy removal, Naira devaluation currency crisis, rising inflation and high consumer price index rates.

Borno

  • According to the CH project, an estimated 2.1 million people in Borno are projected to face an acute food crisis categorized as phase 3 or worse.

Adamawa

  • The CH analysis report projects that about 1.1 million people in Adamawa State will face acute food crisis or worse.

Yobe

  • The CH report projects that about 1.5 million people in Yobe State are expected to face a food crisis (CH Phase 3) or worse.

Response

Borno

  • The Borno State Government through the National and State Emergency Management Agencies distributed food targeting 100,000 households in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council and Jere LGA. The quantity of food items distributed, and numbers of households reached are yet unconfirmed.

Adamawa

  • The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) distributed dry season inputs including seeds and fertilizer in Madagali, Song, Girei, Yola South and Fufore LGAs of Adamawa. The organization also trained farmers in improved farming techniques.

  • FAO trained 200 people, mostly IDPs and returnees, on best practices on aquaculture and homestead gardening in Girei & Michika LGAs of Adamawa.

  • Valfasam Care Initiative continuously monitored and trained vulnerable households in Dasin– Hausa community, Fufore LGA on integrated pest management.

  • A sector partner facilitated a share out ceremony for four (4) village savings and loan association (VSLA) groups. The groups comprised of 80 widows and 20 vulnerable women-headed households, who have been saving money in the scheme for the past nine months. The partner used the opportunity to further campaign for briquette making and use.

Yobe

  • The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency is conducting an assessment on the effect of the clashes between farmers and herders on food security in the state. The assessment is still ongoing.

  • The multisectoral crisis recovery programme in Yobe State flagged off the distribution of 1, 500 water pumps to farmers across the 17 LGAs for the dry season farming.

  • The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management with support from the North-East Development Commission concluded the mapping of groups and associations for the distribution of relief materials including 25 kilograms of rice, blankets, cartons of spaghetti, and clothes.

Gaps

Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States

  • There is a need to explore a sustainable solution to end the clashes between farmers and herders in Yobe State.

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