About This Policy Commission

The Agriculture and Food Security Policy Commission engages in advocacy to follow through agriculture specific issues with a view to ensuring the formulation, adoption, and implementation of appropriate policies on agro-industrial development in the agro industrial space and food and nutrition security as a whole.

The overarching objective of the Agriculture & Food Security Policy Commission is to facilitate the adoption of various NES recommendations with a view to fast-tracking growth and development of the economy.

It is therefore against this background that NESG is working with select players in the Agricultural  sector with the view to contribute meaningfully to the body of actionable solutions which the public and private sector is encouraged to adopt towards weathering the current economic and environmental downturns. In particular, the commission is poised to enhance its operational processes to engage policy institutions and government agencies to follow-through the implementation of policy recommendations from previous annual summits and continue on year-on-year monitoring of such recommendations and other economic activities of the government.

Call for papers

The Agriculture and Food Security Policy Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group is delighted to announce a Call for Papers on the critical topic of "Mitigating the Nigerian Food Crisis: Building a Robust Food Architecture." This initiative aims to gather innovative and practical solutions from experts, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to address the pressing challenges that Nigeria faces in ensuring food security and sustainable agricultural development. The call seeks to encourage contributions that analyze the root causes of the crisis and propose viable strategies to enhance the resilience of Nigeria's food systems

Milestones & Current Intiatives

• The Rapid Baseline Assessment of Agricultural Policies and Initiatives impacting Market-led Food Systems is a pivotal activity from the Agriculture Food Security nexus of the NESG high-level forum on SDGs, launched during the 26th annual Summit and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project is based on a multi-year commitment to sustain and elevate dialogue partnership mechanisms on SDGs. The study examined all the agricultural policies that impact food system improvements and smallholder farmer profitability. This aimed to proffer policy recommendations and address the broad implementation of legislation and inclusion into existing policy frameworks at the national and sub-national levels.
• The Food Safety and Quality Bill engagement was enabled by a grant from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to partner with the Federal Ministry of Health, which is the government’s ministry with the mandate for food safety and quality management. An inception meeting was held with the Ministry of Health, Food and Safety Unit Director and a preliminary workshop was held in February. The team got the polls of various stakeholders and organisations like NASDAQ, CERN etc., many of which are in the food safety and quality space in the discussions and feedback sessions of the meeting. The team also embarked on advocacy visits. The advocacy visits ended with a visit to the Food and Rural Development committees of the National Assembly.