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Food technology, national food self-sufficiency and food-agro-industrialization: the Nigerian experience.

Igene, J. O.;

Inaugural Lecture Series - University of Maiduguri Year: 1992 Issue: No. 52 Pages: 35 pp. Ref: 58 ref.

1992

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This paper looks at a significant national problem in Nigeria, the food crisis. It mentions that food technology has the potential to avert the food crisis, if it is adequately integrated with agriculture, rural food processing, research and development and industry. The role of food in human development, growth and the survival of nations is significant. The Malthusian theory that population levels are, in the long term, determined by the amount of food available, still holds true today. The Nigerian population is severely at risk. Without an abundant and wholesome supply of food, growth and survival of the nation is at risk. There has been an unending food crisis in Nigeria since the oil boom period. Malnutrition in Nigeria is outlined. The paper aims to establish the relationship between food technology, agriculture, food agro-industrial development and improved nutrition, with the idea that the role of food technology in partnership with industry includes the development of agriculture, elimination of involuntary malnutrition and stabilization of food prices, through the creation of new foods, improvement of existing food products, rural food agro-industrialization and economic development. This forms the basis of food security. The development and contributions of food technology on a global level are appraised. The theoretical framework allows the evaluation of the achievements, failures and constraints of food technology in terms of food self-sufficiency, economic and food agro-industrial development in Nigeria. The challenges for the future are discussed, outlining some administrative, technological and policy strategies for promoting food self-sufficiency, economic and industrial development in Nigeria.