To showcase the importance of food security in an increasingly changing climate, SustyVibes has organized a screening for a movie- Swallow. Swallow is the latest film by the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Foundation, to highlight the urgency of food insecurity and discusses how food importation has become a major challenge.
Swallow digs deeper into these problems and also proffers solutions whilst addressing opportunities that can be invested in to solve Food insecurity
Swallow addresses different problems affecting Food Security in Nigeria from farmers’ lack of Infrastructure and increasing climate change creating the perfect storm. Climate change has made it harder for farmers to predict the seasons, making it harder to schedule farming practices. Most of the farmers are still involved in old agricultural practices, using manual labor limiting the yield of food that can be produced.
Nigerian farmers collectively accumulate about 40% post-harvest , losses. Factors such as poor electricity, bad transport system contribute greatly to this.
Swallow sheds light on all of these problems threatening productive agriculture and Food security in Nigeria.
The Movie will be screened on Sunday, 11th of November 2018 at Civic Hive, 42 Montgomery Road, Yaba, Lagos at 5:30pm.
Register here.