Lack of policy linkages affecting agro-ecological sustainability – ActionAid

The Country Director of ActionAid Nigeria ,Ms Ojobo Atuluku, has said that the inability of the government to link policies and research has made it difficult to get solutions to agro ecological challenges.
Speaking on the sidelines of the National Agroecology and Climate Justice Summit by Action Aid Nigeria yesterday in Abuja, Atuluku noted that the inability of the government to manage researches has increased the risk of food and nutrition insecurity for man, fishery as well as livestock.
“In the same vein, climate change-induced migration for man and animals is heightened and conflicts will assume catastrophic dimensions which falls back to further exacerbating the trend agro ecological hazards in Nigeria,” she said.
Also, Kebbi State Commissioner for Agriculture, Barrister Attairu Machido, raised alarm over the invasion of elephants on farms in some parts of the state.
The commissioner explained that for the past two weeks elephant have been destroying farms in Bagudo and Kokobese local government area of the state complicating the existing farmers-herders crises.
He pointed out that they use to have issues with hippopotamus coming to their farms but not as much as the elephants currently destroying the farms.
He disclosed that the state government had already notified the Federal Ministry of Environment and have assured the farmers that government would compensate them for the destruction in order to avoid clash between the farmers and the elephants.
The commissioner said the farmers in the past were killing the elephants but with increased awareness and government assurance to compensate them, farmers are now protecting the wild animals.
He said the Federal and the state ministry of environment have deployed there officials to the affected LGAs to see what could be done to safeguard the situation.