Food waivers: Abuja’s quick fix, Northern farmers’ slow death

Last week, I attended a seminar-like meeting that passionately debated the issue of recent food import waiver – its meaning, implications and ramifications. Food is everybody’s business, and we must analyse the waiver objectively. For more than a century, Nigeria’s agricultural value chain has been remarkably stable. Farmers in the North planted, harvested, sold part

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