{
  "id": 15522519,
  "title": "HOMEF: Hunger Amid Abundance Exposes Failure of Nigeria’s Food System",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/homef-hunger-amid-abundance-exposes-failure-of-nigerias-food-system",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-19T00:09:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/10/19/homef-hunger-amid-abundance-exposes-failure-of-nigerias-food-system/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has highlighted the failures in Nigeria's food system, calling for urgent reforms to address hunger amid abundant natural and human resources. In a statement marking World Food Day, HOMEF emphasized that industrial agriculture, restrictions on farmers' rights to indigenous seeds, and neglect of agroecology undermine food sovereignty, nutrition, and climate resilience. The organization urged governments to tackle root causes of hunger and malnutrition, protect farmers' rights, and strengthen local food systems to ensure smallholder farmers retain control over the seeds they plant. HOMEF's Executive Director, Nnimmo Bassey, urged Nigerians to be more conscious of their food choices and emphasized the need to transition to agroecology, highlighting the importance of indigenous seeds for adapting to changing climatic conditions and ensuring food supply chain stability.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}