Speaking in Abuja on Thursday, she affirmed that there is need for a sustainable solution to the communal clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Atuluku added that unless workable policies are set up to tackle insecurity challenges, we won’t achieve positive results.
“Insecurity has affected food security in not only the North-East, but also among farmers and herdsmen across the country.”
To resolve these conflicts, she urged the government to resolve them to avoid a gradual drift towards food shortage, identifying lack of access to farmland, credit and market as some of the major hitch facing the women farmers.
Commending the Federal Government efforts at reviewing the Malabo declaration, she agitates easy land access and government’s investment in small-scale women farmers.
SWOFON President, Mrs. Mary Afan claimed that the organisation has been engaging government officials and other parastatals to support women farmers in the rural communities.
She, however, narrated how four women were killed in their farms owing to insecurity, which had forced them to engage local security guards to secure them in rotations while in their farms, urging the government to facilitate easy access to fertilisers and other inputs as part of its intervention in the sector.
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