The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, in collaboration with state governments, non-state actors and development partners, including Germany, is advancing the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Kampala Declaration 2026–2035 to accelerate agricultural development and strengthen policy implementation.
The 2026 CAADP Community of Practice (CoP) meeting provides a platform for strengthening collaboration on food security and the transformation of Nigeria’s agrifood systems.
Speaking at the annual Community of Practice meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, said; ‘alignment among the Nigerian Government, state governments and development partners was essential to achieving sustainable food security and resilient livelihoods.”
The Minister noted that “the alignment must translate into compatible policies, reliable data, complementary investments and clarity of responsibility for delivery. We need one coherent agrifood system in which national direction and State-level execution reinforce one another’’ he said.
He disclosed that “the responsibility has become even more important with the Kampala CAADP Declaration and its Strategy and Action Plan for 2026–2035.” He said.
The Minister revealed that the Kampala framework takes a broader agrifood systems approach, with priorities spanning sustainable production, investment and finance, food and nutrition security, trade, inclusion, resilience and stronger governance.
Senator Kyari said that “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has placed food security at the centre of the national agenda..Our responsibility is to translate that mandate into increased production, greater affordability, stronger rural economies and a more resilient food system.’’
“We have seen reductions of up to 50 per cent in the prices of some essential food commodities, alongside expanded input delivery, investments in rural infrastructure and support to smallholder farmers. The task now is to sustain these gains and deepen their impact” he said.
Senator Kyari disclosed that the responsibility has become even more important with the Kampala CAADP Declaration and its Strategy and Action Plan for 2026–2035.
“The Kampala framework takes a broader agrifood systems approach, with priorities spanning sustainable production, investment and finance, food and nutrition security, trade, inclusion, resilience and stronger governance’’ he said.
The Minister stressed that’ “For a country of Nigeria’s scale, the choices we make in agriculture have consequences beyond our borders, for regional markets, Africa’s wider agrifood transformation and Nigeria’s place in the global food economy. Nigeria has developed and validated a 10-Year National Agrifood System Strategy and Action Plan as the vehicle for domesticating these commitments. The Community of Practice provides an important sub-national mechanism for taking that work into implementation.”
He stated that a Community of Practice earns its value when experience in one state shortens the learning curve for another and when progress can be assessed against agreed indicators.
“We should know what is working, where it is working, what it costs and what it takes to scale it. We should be equally candid about what is not working and why’’ Senator Kyari explained.
