The Nigerian Labour Unions have pledged their support for the United Nation’s Ecosystem Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly aimed at checking the effect of global food crisis in the country.
On Tuesday, during the Assembly’s committee meeting, representatives of the secretariat of the body in Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, congratulated the unions for facilitating all logistics necessary to make the unveiling possible.
The unions, which took up sponsorship of most of the items for the inauguration, included the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees, National Union of Hotels and Personal Service Workers, Food Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association and Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions.
EBAFOSA was formed following the second Africa Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security conference convened by the UN Environment Programme in collaboration with the African Union Commission and partners in 2015.
Mr. James Oyesola,The National President, EBAFOSA, said the body was the first inclusive pan-African policy framework that provided a platform for all stakeholders in the country to collaborate in developing and implementing policy solutions to upscale EBA-driven agriculture and its value chains as well as industrialisation and job creation in a sustainable way.
He later explained that the EBAFOSA implementation was strategically categorized into three phases; introductory, growth and maturity, with each subsequent phase building on a preceding one.
He also said that,“The introductory phase is considered as the most crucial as it aims to secure commitment of the vital stakeholders, who will be the foundation of EBAFOSA”.
