Impact of the Strategy Adopted in the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals on Food Security in Nasarawa State

Abstract

This paper examines Impact of the strategy adopted in the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals of food security in Nasarawa State. It is over a year that world leaders proposed a 17-goal agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goal has 69 components aimed at ending poverty, protecting the planet, as well as ensuring prosperity for all. The integrated development model was utilized to explain the strategy adopted in the implementation of sustainable development goals programmes on food security in Nasarawa State. In carrying out this study, both primary and secondary data were used. Primary data involves obtaining information by means of interviews and questionnaire to gauge the opinions of stakeholders, as to the success of the policy. On the other hand, secondary data involves the collection and examination of recorded data already in existence. They include relevant textbooks, journals and periodicals, seminar papers, reports, magazines and internet. The various findings
revealed that the strategies adopted by SDGs and state government have linked up positively with the outcome of food security for Nasarawa State citizens. Although, some beneficiaries indicated that the role of government would have been more in keeping the prices stable. To be sure that the SDGs programmes on food security can be achieved by 2030, the study recommends that
Government should sit and build mechanisms/strategies that would bring farm implement to farmers in early time such as fertilizer, seed, and built roads linking to the farmland to both the rural and urban, so that it would improve development of food production and reduce the risk of spoilage of agricultural products within the state. Also, SDGS/Government should reinvigorate the Nasarawa State Ministry of Agriculture and Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRD) which encompasses agricultural activities.