Afrigather Fund-Sure Cooperative and Multi-Life Savers For The Much less-Privileged Folks, two non-governmental organisations, have joined forces to launch the Food4All Initiative, a programme geared toward financing and supporting over 40 million smallholder farmers and meals entrepreneurs.
The NGOs intend to finance the programme by way of fundraising focusing on $6 billion between now and 2027.
The initiative’s “One-Household-One-Farmer Scheme” seeks to create a nationwide grassroots community of smallholder farmers and meals entrepreneurs, tackling Nigeria’s meals safety challenges whereas producing mass employment and wealth-building alternatives.
The Food4All fundraising marketing campaign was launched in Lagos on July 27, 2024, with a goal of elevating $6 billion between 2024 and 2027.
Josephine Ojiambo, a diplomat, lent her help to the initiative, urging international donors and growth companions to hitch forces with the NGOs.
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She stated, “I urge international donors and growth companions to provide their full help to the Food4All Fundraising Marketing campaign. Nigerians each residence and throughout the diaspora should take part on this nation-building effort. You all should put money into agricultural and meals worth chains, each within the startups and enterprise progress.”
Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, a outstanding Nigerian cleric, additionally threw his weight behind the initiative, emphasising the necessity for agricultural engagement to handle unemployment and obtain meals safety.
“It’s a identified reality {that a} hungry man is an indignant man and an indignant man is a harmful man. That is why we should not enable the continued acute starvation disaster to proceed.”
Kennedy Iyere, the chief promoter of the Food4All Fundraising Marketing campaign, highlighted the failure of previous authorities agricultural applications resulting from corruption and lack of sincerity, stressing the necessity for a people-driven method to handle Nigeria’s meals disaster.
“Our general purpose is to create, finance and construct a nationwide grassroots community of twenty million smallholder farmers and meals entrepreneurs.
“Nigerians are those to drive their very own programmes for agricultural growth, meals safety, job creation, wealth constructing and financial self-emancipation, no one will do it for them. It’s for this objective that myself and Reverend Father Mbaka shaped the Food4All Initiative by way of our NGOs”, Iyere stated.
