SAHEL Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) have hosted a meeting on Reorienting Future Public Agriculture and Food Research and Development in Nigeria for Achieving Sustainable, Nutritious and Climate-Resilient Food Systems.
The meeting was organised as a hybrid event, with physical participants in Abuja and virtual participants from other parts of Nigeria and the world.
The meeting was hosted as part of the efforts under a country-level policy study on public agriculture research and development in Nigeria, commissioned by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, headquartered in Switzerland, and led by Sahel Consulting in Nigeria.
The meeting brought together stakeholders within the public and private sectors and development and donor landscape to disseminate the findings from the study and discuss key strategies on how public research activities and funding can be reoriented and supported to be more closely focused on innovations that can tackle gaps in the agri-food system.
In her welcome address, Yuan Zhou, the Head of Agricultural Policy at Syngenta Foundation emphasised the crucial role of demand-driven agricultural research in supporting the innovation process to transform food systems to address climate change, nutrition, and sustainability-related issues to achieve food and nutrition security for Nigeria’s growing population.
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