Bilateral Meeting with H.E. Kashim Shettima, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
30 July 2025, Addis Ababa: Today, the FAO Director-General met with His Excellency Kashim Shettima, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on the margins of the UNFSS+4 Stocktake in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The Vice President thanked the Director-General for the meeting and appreciated the long- standing collaboration between Nigeria and FAO. He further thanked him for FAO’s support, technical assistance and expertise and its contribution to agrifood system transformation in the country.
Vice President Shettima informed that Nigeria was re-energizing agriculture through allocation of resources to the agriculture bank. He further informed that the agriculture landscape in Nigeria was changing rapidly, and that the government was investing in the agriculture sector to include youth. He stated that Nigeria looked forward to further strengthening its partnership with FAO to for the transformation its agrifood system and continued to rely on FAO’s technical expertise, support and knowledge sharing to accelerate the transformation aimed at reducing poverty, creating employment, achieving food security in rural communities, and to building capacity for smallholder farmers. Finally, the Vice President reiterated the importance of advocacy for agriculture development by FAO at the global stage, in particular to enable economic growth in developing countries.
The Director-General reaffirmed FAO’s commitment to continue to support Nigeria and informed that the Organization had created a number of strategic platforms and initiatives such as the Hand-in-Hand, Digital Villages, and One Country One Priority Product (OCOP), to assist member countries to transform their agrifood systems. He confirmed that FAO would assist Nigeria to develop its agriculture census to expedite its data collection programme, and further committed to work in partnership with Nigeria on soil mapping, to improve aquaculture, agroforestry, horticulture and water management under one holistic approach.
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