[{"bbox": [83, 106, 1165, 159], "category": "Text", "text": "possessing limited skills, fuels the numbers of the city poor, unemployed or under-employed in precarious jobs, or joins the numbers of irregular migration."}, {"bbox": [109, 196, 349, 226], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2. Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [83, 240, 1145, 346], "category": "Text", "text": "Notwithstanding Nigeria's status as Africa's biggest economy, the country is confronted with numerous political, socio-economic, environmental, climatic and severe security challenges. The doubling of the population in the next 30 years points to enormous challenges for food production, raising both, the food security concerns, and concerns over increasing conflicts due to limited resources such as land and water."}, {"bbox": [83, 358, 1145, 518], "category": "Text", "text": "Women and girls in developing countries are particularly affected by climate change and environmental degradation, such as ecosystem loss, loss of access to vital nature resources, malnutrition, and respiratory, water-related, and vector-borne diseases. As primary users and managers of natural resources, women play an essential role in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and environmental protection. However, they are prevented from participating equally in related governance processes for multiple reasons, including harmful gender norms, inadequate legal frameworks, low access to education, and land ownership."}, {"bbox": [83, 530, 1145, 717], "category": "Text", "text": "The “youth bulge” challenges the demand for qualitative education, training, employment, and food security, especially for young women. Nigeria’s youth are often unemployed, and the country’s education curriculum does not match labour market demands. Young entrepreneurs have more significant constraints in accessing land and finances. The agriculture sector employs more than 36% of the country’s labour force. While the Nigerian agricultural industry mainly focuses on crop production, which accounts for 90% of output, the value chain across the industry remains highly untapped. The agricultural sector is still one of the sectors that offer the most employment opportunities for youth."}, {"bbox": [83, 729, 1145, 888], "category": "Text", "text": "Delivering competitiveness and inclusive growth in the agricultural and industrial sectors is critical to Nigeria's economic stability and security. Also, providing better prospects for a predominantly young population of Nigeria is a vital priority. The international donor community and the Nigerian stakeholders agree that the agriculture sector is critical in boosting inclusive and green economic growth of the country. Exploiting its potential requires addressing the resource shortages, outdated systems of agriculture, insufficient input supply, lack of access to finance, absence of value addition and supply-chain linkages and insufficient climate adaptation measures."}, {"bbox": [83, 900, 1145, 1166], "category": "Text", "text": "Modern agriculture, supported by training, advice and innovation, is part of the answer to making farmers indispensable managers of ecosystems, habitats and landscapes. To this end, the action also aligns with the goals of the EU's Adaptation Strategy and in particular the systemic mainstreaming of climate resilience through the promotion of nature-based solutions for adaptation and promotion of local adaptation action. It will contribute to the EU GAP III, and particularly its thematic areas of engagement 1) Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women; and 2) Addressing the challenges and harnessing the opportunities offered by the green transition and the digital transformation, including women's and men's equal access to financial services, productive resources such as land, trade and entrepreneurship, women's decent work issues in the agricultural sector, and women's economic and social empowerment.. It will also contribute significantly to the Great Green Wall initiative and to Nigeria's NDC objectives and targets."}, {"bbox": [83, 1178, 1145, 1258], "category": "Text", "text": "The action takes a comprehensive approach to support access to finance in the agricultural sector and investment in the energy sector targeting productive agro-food uses; Agri-skills and curriculum development, innovative agriculture and policy dialogue with FMARD to promote an enabling green agri-business environment."}, {"bbox": [83, 1270, 1145, 1377], "category": "Text", "text": "Deforestation and forest degradation worldwide are driven by the expansion of agricultural land that is linked to the production of commodities such as palm oil, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, timber and rubber. The EU through this action is committed to promoting the consumption of ‘deforestation-free’ products and reducing the EU’s impact on global deforestation and forest degradation."}, {"bbox": [83, 1390, 1145, 1444], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Identification of main stakeholders and corresponding institutional and/or organisational issues (mandates, potential roles, and capacities) to be covered by the action:**"}, {"bbox": [83, 1454, 1145, 1535], "category": "Text", "text": "**Key MDAs** - Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD); Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI); Ministry of Finance Budget and National Planning; Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and Ministry of Women Affairs,"}, {"bbox": [83, 1547, 1145, 1627], "category": "Text", "text": "These are relevant government agencies with oversight functions in the sphere of youth and women employment, digital innovation, trade and investment, and development cooperation **coordination**. They will play leading roles in the action coordination bodies and provide strategic and policy guidance in the areas addressed by the action."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1157, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 28"}]