This Headlines UN Food Systems Summit in Roma, HE said,Nigeria has mobilized over half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food systems transformation initiative, according to the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima
The Vice President made the disclosure while chairing a high-level meeting on the first day of the UN Summit declared open in Rome, Italy by the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guteress. Vice Presiden, Senator Kashim Shettima said the funds were mobilised “through domestic resources, multilateral development banks, international financial institutions, climate funds leading agro-businesses,” and would be used for “Innovation finance for food system transformation; development of Nigeria’s agro value chain and Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones programmes.”
