Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Muhammad Abubakar and the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing are among dignitaries expected to lead the conversation at the 2022 edition..
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Vendors display food for sale at a market in Mowe, Ogun State in southwest Nigeria, on April 19, 2021. – Nigeria’s economy was already struggling with a fall in the price of oil, Nigeria’s major export, and a weak local naira currency, before the global pandemic struck.Now Nigeria’s inflation has soared to a four-year high of more than 18 percent in March 2021, with food prices up 22.9 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)Worried about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s agriculture sector, the organisers of this year’s Feed Nigeria Summit (FNS) say this edition is targeted at resuscitating the country’s disrupted food system.