{"id":194072,"date":"2025-03-20T15:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/mozambique-maputo-declaration-nigerias-second-chance-at-food-security\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T15:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:56:40","slug":"mozambique-maputo-declaration-nigerias-second-chance-at-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/mozambique-maputo-declaration-nigerias-second-chance-at-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Maputo Declaration &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s Second Chance At Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The solution lies not in lamentation but action. The government must prioritise agriculture in fiscal planning, scaling up investments in research, irrigation, rural roads, security and smallholder credit schemes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\"><strong>Nigeria&#8217;s future is tied to its farms and fields. Now is the time for the government, private sector, and development partners to come together to put agriculture at the heart of development, and ensure that no Nigerian goes hungry in a land of plenty. The time for talks is over, this is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200257.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solution lies not in lamentation but action. The government must prioritise agriculture in fiscal planning, scaling up investments in research, irrigation, rural roads, security and smallholder credit schemes. Nigeria&#8217;s future is tied to its farms and fields. Now is the time for the government, private sector, and development partners to come together to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12844,8254,5074,683,4704,257,393,5761,4586,254],"class_list":["post-194072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chance","tag-declaration","tag-food","tag-maputo","tag-mozambique","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}