Nigeria: Notore and the Pursuit of Sustainable Food Security

20 March 2012

It is one thing for a nation to be able to feed itself and another for it to feed itself sustainably, Crusoe Osagie reports Notore's effort to pull Nigeria out of its unfortunate dependence on other nations for food, simply by manufacturing fertiliser locally and making sure the commodity gets into the hands of actual farmers, using a special supply chain process, which has drawn global attention

Nigeriais not currently enmeshed in famine, extreme lack of food or starvation for one reason only, and that is because every day, it sells enough crude oil to purchase sufficient food to salvage its population from the brink of starvation.

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