09/04/2020
Research Overview and Objective:
Food security, as defined at the 1996 World Food Summit of United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security, means that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life (FAO, 1996). In essence, this means that preferred foods must be available, accessible, utilized, stable, and provide the required nutrition for food security to be achieved; and these could be measured based on the individual, household, national, regional and global levels.
Before the incidence of Covid-19 in Nigeria, the major cause, however, for much of the food insufficiency in Nigeria is the conflict and violence which has been largely due to ethnic and religious tensions in the northeast of the country.
However, on March 29, President Buhari announced a cessation of movement for an initial period of fourteen days in the Federal Capital Territory and in Lagos and Ogun States to reduce the spread of COVID-19 which is a respiratory infectious disease caused by a novel Coronavirus with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more severe cases, difficulty breathing. During the lockdown, businesses and offices must remain closed and people are expected to stay at home. Similarly, State Governors in the country also announced a partial cessation of movements in their various States to curb the spread of the virus. The lockdown has some exemptions, including hospitals and healthcare facilities and some commercial establishments in the food, energy, petroleum, and security sectors. Despite the exemption made on establishments in the food sector, prices and availability of food products were observed to be detrimentally affected. The broad objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on food security in Nigeria.
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