Nigeria: THE ROLE OF NIGERIAN WOMEN IN ECOFARMING

The Network for Ecofarming in Africa (NECOFA) has produced a short paper profiling the role of Nigerian women in sustainable food production and food security and advocating greater efforts from national food and agriculture programmes to take account of women's expertise in this area. The report identifies a number of areas where the National Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS), which promotes ecologically and socially sustainable farming methods, has been successful in increasing the participation of women.