<p>All along, our problem has been how we can adequately feed ourselves. Our concern has been ensuring food security for all. To make this possible, several food security debates have been held; policies have emerged and are being executed.</p><p>The Nigerian Economic Summit Group for instance, has an Agriculture and Food Security Commission. One of the achievements of this commission is the Nucleus Estate Initiative which has taken root and which is already yielding results. OLAM Nigeria and many other private sector institutions have glowing testimonies on this initiative. The NESG Agriculture and Food Security Commission is headed by indefatigable Emmanuel Ijewere.</p><p>We have made some progress in our drive to achieve food security, but the level we are, currently, is not a comfortable one. We can see this, and can feel it too. And the experts know it and have said so. Oloche Edache, assistant director-general and FAO regional representative for Africa, said in a report that Nigeria has virtually attained self sufficiency in most food categories, that the food insecure accounts for less han 10 per cent of the national population, but that this performance in domestic food production cannot guarantee the sustainability of achievements fast enough to cope with the food demands of a large populous country like Nigeria.</p><p>Quoting a World Bank study in 2005, Edache said with a population growth rate of 2.7 per cent per annum, at the present rate of production, Nigeria will require an estimated 70 to 80 per cent increase in food supplies to meet its corresponding capital food requirements by 2015.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/entrepreneur/business-opportunity/49624-the-biodiesel-debate">Keep reading...</a></p>