2015 Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security, Recognises Women Roles As Key

Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063
Women Contribute Over 60% of Farm Labour- Research

As the Day for Food and Nutrition Security is commemorated across African countries today, women have been identified as great contributors to food security in Nigeria. Given the 2015 theme as “Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063, the ADFNS seeks to beam a searchlight on women activities in Africa, recognizing them as key players in food and nutrition security in Africa.

It is widely recognised that women play a central role in food and nutrition security. Research evidence estimates that women in Africa contribute to over 60 percent of farm labour. At the household level, an overwhelming majority of women prepare the food consumed, in addition to other household chores.

Hence, women are key to ending hunger and malnutrition as they form the backbone of smallholder agriculture in their various roles as producers, processors, and traders, among others.

So are you an entrepreneurial lady, career woman, mother, wife, and sister, please don’t relent in your efforts in ridding our nation of poverty and hunger through your contribution to our national food and nutrition security.

The Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS) was declared in July 2010, in Kampala, Uganda, at the 15th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit, which also endorsed its commemoration annually on the 30th October.