Overview

The 'National Agricultural Resilience Framework' is a report by the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Resilience in Nigeria (ACARN), published in 2015 by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. It outlines strategies to enhance the resilience of Nigeria's agriculture sector against climate-induced shocks and stresses, ensuring food and nutritional security, eradicating rural poverty, and fostering social stability. The framework emphasizes short- and long-term policies, including the Agricultural Transformation Agenda launched in 2011, which aims to add 20 million metric tonnes of food and create 3.5 million jobs by 2015. Key initiatives include innovative financing mechanisms like the Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the Fund for Agricultural Financing in Nigeria (a public-private partnership with Germany), development of weather index insurance schemes, improvement of weather forecasting through more operational stations, and social safety net policies such as conditional cash transfers, school feeding programs, and nutritional interventions like the 'Saving one million lives' initiative. The report also highlights Nigeria's contribution of 32,000 metric tonnes of grains to Niger Republic in 2012 to address food shortages. Edited by Jimmy Adegoke, Chidi Ibe, and Adebisi Araba, the document serves as a national policy guide for reducing food and nutrition vulnerability while promoting environmental resilience.

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