Advocacy for transformational services and policies - empowering MAP for agricultural value chains in Nigeria

The Global Programme on Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Policies (AgSys) is aiming at transformation processes that strenghten sustainable agricultural systems in India, Zambia, Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as at regional and global level. The global programme works in five areas (outputs): - Promoting reform approaches through transformative agricultural policy. These approaches need to be cross-cutting and as such connect agricultural policy with other areas such as food and nutrition security, climate action and biodiversity conservation (Output 1: Transformative agricultural policies). - Scaling successful practices to provide support in consolidating and institutionalising tried-and-tested approaches and innovations (Output 2: Institutional anchoring of tested innovations). - Including input from civil society by involving non-state actors, above all women and young people, in the reform agendas (Output 3: Advocacy and empowerment). - Harmonising financial contributions with the aim of transforming the national funding landscapes and opening up access to additional funding and contributions to support the reform agendas (Output 4: Financing transformation). - Linking national and global agendas to strengthen national reform processes and enrich the debate on the transformation of agricultural and food systems (Output 5: Linking transformation levels). Nigeria is currently not on track to achieve SDG 2 "End hunger, achieve food security and better nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture" by 2030, with hunger levels projected to be higher in 2030 than they are at present with 34% of the Nigerian population being food insecure. It is therefore critically important to pursue pathways that encourage synergies and limit the negative trade-offs between hunger, poverty, nutrition, and climate change. The AgSys country measure Nigeria aims to partner with the Nigerian government and in alliance with other development partners to transform the Nigerian agri-food system to ensure food security and healthy diets for a growing population. It aspires to support ongoing transformative initiatives, such as the National Pathways to Food System Transformation, but also support new initiatives, such as the soil management, nutrition and gender in agriculture policy.