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Home Gardens Enrich Diets in Nigeria’s Rural Communities

This article was co-authored by Nigeria Health Watch and Sahel Consulting as part of our ongoing advocacy efforts to promote community-based nutrition interventions in Nigeria We all need to eat year-round, so why not keep a home garden going throughout the year? In Doruwa Babuje, a quiet community nestled in the hills of Bokkos Local […]

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Uniting for Improved Nutrition Outcomes: A Call for Enhanced Collaboration

By Safiya Shuaibu Isa According to the National Policy on Food and Nutrition (NPFN 2016), effective institutional coordination is required to ensure Nigeria’s nutrition programme is result-oriented. Prior to its establishment in 2016, efforts to tackle malnutrition had been principally sectoral, with health, agriculture, education, science, and technology, among others, providing interventions independently. The NPFN […]

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Nourishing Nigeria: Advancing Nutrition through Climate Resilience

Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead Writer) Climate change poses a critical global crisis, impacting environments and threatening public health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, from undernutrition, malaria, diarrhoea, and heat stress alone. This calls for urgent collective action […]

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