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UNITED NATION'S WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that it may be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition assistance for 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria by the end of July due to a severe funding shortfall. 
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has allocated $2.5 billion to its 2023-2027 Nigeria Country Strategy Plan (CSP), a five-year initiative aimed at eradicating hunger and improving nutrition across the country. 
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has distributed seeds, fertilisers, and other inputs to 2000 farmers in Niger state, under the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro-Pocket (NAGS-AP). 
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), through the Africa Youth Growth Foundation (AYGF) has launched a wheat distribution project to supporting over 68,000 vulnerable households in Katsina State.  
The UN has allocated the sum of $100 million to Nigeria and other countries most at risk from the growing hunger.
UN's World Food Programme warned that Nigeria  could face major food emergency in three to six months.