The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has raised an alarm on the food security level of over 14 million Nigerians, others, IgbereTV reports
Specifically, the agency noted that the number consists of 385,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Jasper Mwesigwa, food security analyst for FAO disclosed this at the presentation of the Cadre Harmonisé report for Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
The Cadre Harmonisé (CH) is the current ECOWAS/Sahelian Regional framework for consensual analysis of acute food insecurity situations.
The report noted that residents of Yobe, Borno, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Adamawa, Kano, Bauchi. Enugu, Niger and Kebbi are set to face food crises.
Others include Zamfara, Jigawa, Gombe, Benue, Abia, Cross River, Edo, Lagos, Plateau and Taraba.
FAO added that no fewer than 19.4 million Nigerians may face acute food and nutrition insecurity between June and August this year.
According to the report, key and limiting factors that impact food and nutrition are insecurity, particularly in the northeast, inflation rate as evident in soaring commodity prices, loss of employment and reduction in household income
