Abstract
Food and agricultural crisis as well as hunger are widespread and getting worse in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable development necessitates change in public policies, personal attitudes and behaviors. The issues related to agricultural and food crisis may be solved by reversal of negative policy trajectory. The social welfare needs of Nigeria are grossly inadequate, resulting in many people especially children, women and the aged knowing abject poverty, improper nutrition, housing, health and education including minimal love and care. We need long-term projections based on realistic estimates of future population growth and food production using latest agricultural technologies. Key words: Food and agricultural crisis, hunger, sustainable development.
Highlights
Biologists discovered natural enemies for pest control, By the development of mass-rearing and distribution techniques at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, losses were brought under control in over 90% of the cassava-growing areas of Africa
Glenn (2011) posits that the long-term factors that are likely to be linked to increasing food prices include population growth, rising affluence, diversion of corn consumption for biofuels, soil erosion, aquifer depletion, loss of cropland, falling water tables and water pollution, increasing costs of fertilizers, market speculation, water diversion from rural to urban areas, increasing meat consumption, global food reserves at 25-year lows, increasing droughts – climate change, melting mountain glaciers reducing water flows – climate change and, eventually salt water invading crop lands
Agriculture and food production constitute the greatest nutrient source to surface waters resulting in eutrophication
Summary
The Chrysanthus Centre for Future-Oriented Studies, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. We need long-term projections based on realistic estimates of future population growth and food production using latest agricultural technologies. There are variable needs and demands for food supplies, and it is not easy to generalize trends in agricultural development and food production on a general dimension. As Nigeria strives to overcome its developmental problems, food insecurity and programme policies to attain selfsufficiency in food and agricultural production for its evergrowing population, there is extant domestic hunger, rural poverty, malnutrition, morbidity and mortality, environmental, water and land degradation (Chukwuma, 1994) as the attendant sequelae of food and agricultural crisis in the country. With regard to the issue of food security, Nigeria is yet to sign the Food Reserve Act into Law for sustainable development in future domestic and global change (Chukwuma, 1995). Nigeria presents sustainably as a larger and more complex ecosystem that is more likely to survive by moving from one stable, though temporary condition to another, given enough time and protection from debilitative centripetal and centrifugal forces
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